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• subseries 1
• subseries 2
• subseries 3
• subseries 4

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Detailed Description

Subseries 1: Tuition reimbursement files

Scope and Content Note:

This subseries contains files documenting the Native American Education Unit's provision of reimbursements to New York State school districts for expenses related to the education of students from Indian reservations in district schools. These documents include state aid voucher forms, listing the number of Indian students in the school district at each school level (kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and handicapped), along with the tuition rates for each type of student. Also included are lists of students eligible to be counted for reimbursement, correspondence showing recalculations of tuition rates and amounts districts were underpaid or overpaid in their reimbursements, worksheets for determining per-student tuition rates, and copies of contracts between NYSED and school districts for the education of Native American students.

Arrangement:

Roughly chronological by school year, then roughly alphabetical by name of school district

  

Subseries 2: Transportation reimbursement files

Scope and Content Note:

This subseries consists of documents related to the reimbursement by NYSED to school districts for the transportation of Native American students from reservations to district schools. Included are copies of contracts made by school districts to bus transportation companies, state aid vouchers, exemptions from competitive bidding, and charts detailing transporation expenses for each district. Also included are letters from NYSED to school districts detailing policy changes affecting transportation contracts.

Arrangement:

Roughly chronological by school year, then roughly alphabetical by name of Indian reservation.

  

Subseries 3: Reservation school files

Scope and Content Note:

This subseries contains materials documenting the Native American Education Unit's contracts with local school districts for the operation of state-owned schools located on Indian reservations. These include schools on the St. Regis/Mohawk, Tuscarora, and Onondaga reservations. Included are copies of the contracts drawn between NYSED and school districts, as well as.......

Arrangement:

Roughly chronological

  

Subseries 4: Miscellaneous files

Scope and Content Note:

This subseries mostly consists of documents that cover aspects of the Native American Education Unit's programs over all of the districts the unit contracts with. Included are forms showing overpayment or underpayment of reimbursements, tables of cost figures for Indian tuition and reservation schools, budget requests made by the unit to the state, lists of contracts made by NYSED as a whole, clippings and reports on Indian education, and lists of enrollments of Native American students in school districts.

Arrangement:

Unarranged