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GAO-19-226 1 (2019-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacsgi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: January 2019 PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE Limited Options Available for Many American Indian and Alaska Native Students What GAO Found Few areas provide American Indian and Alaska Native students (Indian students) school choice options other than traditional public schools. According to GAO's analysis of 2015-16 Department of Education (Education) data, most of the school districts with Indian student enrollment of at least 25 percent had only traditional public schools (378 of 451 districts, or 84 percent). The remaining 73 districts had at least one choice, such as a Bureau of Indian Education, charter, magnet, or career and technical education school (see figure). Most of these 451 districts were in rural areas near tribal lands. Rural districts may offer few school choice options because, for example, they do not have enough students to justify additional schools or they may face difficulties recruiting and retaining teachers, among other challenges. School Districts with American Indian and Alaska Native Student Enrollment of at Least 25 Percent, School Year 2015-16 Districts with only traditional publi schools Districts with at least 1 school choice option TbalI ands Source: GAO analysis of Department of Education, Common Core of Data (CCD), and U.S. Census Bureau data GAO-19-226 Note: School choice options include Bureau of Indian Education, charter, magnet, and career and technical education schools. Some of the 100 school districts with the largest number of Indian students were located in large urban areas, such as New York City, and the majority (62) offered at least one option other than a traditional public school, according to GAO's analysis. The most common option was a charter school. However, because Indian students often account for a small percentage of all students in these districts, Indian education experts GAO interviewed said that the schools are less likely to have curricula that reflect Indian students' cultural identity or provide instruction on Native languages-things that tribes and experts consider crucial to strengthening, rebuilding, and sustaining Indian cultures and communities. Also, even when Indian students had more options, no consistent enrollment patterns were evident. Whether Indian students enrolled in different types of schools could be a function, in part, of differences in state school choice laws and the extent to which these schools offered curricula that reflect Indian languages, cultures, or histories, according to Indian education experts. __ United States Government Accountability Office

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