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From https://languagepolicy.org/submit-your-comments-encourage-charter-grants-to-prioritize-native-american-language/

The Office of Innovation and Improvement, along with the Department of Education is receiving comments to proposed changes in the way the Department allocates grants to charter management organizations. The open comment period ends August 27, 2018.

Grants to Charter Management Organization for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools (aka “CMO grants”) Changes to the priorities, requirements, and selection criteria to the CMO grants have a tremendous affect which CMOs receive funding from future grant competitions.

JNCL-NCLIS encourages its members to submit comments recommending the CMOs show preference toward CMOs with plans for dual language immersion programs, “provided support to such dual language immersion schools shall include distinct attention to schools taught primarily through the medium of a Native American language as established under the Native American Languages Act of 1990, Sec. 104 and 105.” 

You may submit your comment(s) by going to the Federal Registry website and clicking “SUBMIT A FORMAL COMMENT.”

For the full comment from JNCL-NCLIS and links to the Federal Registry website, go to https://languagepolicy.org/submit-your-comments-encourage-charter-grants-to-prioritize-native-american-language/