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Meskwaki Settlement School (MSS) is a tribally controlled school with oversight by the Bureau of Indian Education, is located in the Meskwaki Nation, also known as the Meskwaki Settlement. It is in unincorporated Tama County, Iowa, [2] about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Tama, and is a property of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa.
The organization has protected more than 190,000 acres (770 km 2) in 97 of Iowa’s 99 counties and worked on hundreds of different project sites since its inception in 1979. INHF is donor-supported and has a membership of roughly 10,000.
The school board, anticipating that it will build another elementary school within a few years if the district continues to grow at its current pace, has obtained an option to buy 20 acres (81,000 m 2) just west of Gilbert's residential area and on the north side of the main highway through town. [5]
The eight applications are the most the Iowa Board of Education has received since House File 813 — which expanded who can open a charter school — went into effect in 2021.
The Board of Education was founded in 1857. [3] In the 2019-2020 school year 93 percent of public school children in Iowa attended school in their neighborhood school district. [4] Prior to 2021, there were only 2 charter schools in Iowa.
GoldCap Education is locally owned and operated by education professionals from the Iowa City area bringing enriching and educational year-round programming to the greater Iowa City community ...
Mike Beranek, president of the Iowa State Education Association, said the union remains supportive of the AEAs, and called the House plan "less draconian" than Reynolds' bill but still unnecessary.
Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, tribes can purchase off-reservation land and have it placed in trust in order to operate casinos on the land. [2] For example, in 2015 the Spokane tribe won Bureau of Indian Affairs approval for an off-reservation casino. In 2008, the BIA issued guidance that such lands would need to be a "reasonable ...