New York State Education Dept. Native American Education Unit Indian Education Tuition and Transportation Reimbursement Files
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Overview of the Records
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
19 cubic feet
Arrangement
Chronological by school year, then roughly alphabetical by name of school district.
Administrative History
In January of 1974, the Native American Education Unit was created to consolidate programs and functions involving the education of Native Americans in New York State from numerous NYSED divisions and offices. Among other activities, the unit provides guidance to local school districts receiving federal Title IV and Johnson-O'Malley Act funds, allocates state aid programs to local school districts educating Native Americans residing on reservations, and administers the New York State Indian Aid program which provides financial aid for Native American students attending postsecondary schools.
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.
Related Material
13143 Native American Education Unit subject and correspondence files, documents the overall operations of the unit
A0728 Johnson-O'Malley Act Project files, documents the unit's programs funded by the federal Johnson-O'Malley Act
A0729 Research Files for Regents Paper on Native American Education, documents the development of a 1975 Board of Regents' policy paper on the education of Native Americans in New York State
B1352 Indian (Native American) student tuition aid files, contains records of tuition payments made by the Unit to Native Americans enrolled in post-secondary educational programs.
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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
Contents | Box | ||
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Accretion: 16414-06 |
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Box 1 | 1 | ||
Box 2 | 2 | ||
Box 3 | 3 | ||
Box 4 | 4 | ||
Box 5 | 5 | ||
Box 6 | 6 | ||
Box 7 | 7 | ||
Box 8 | 8 | ||
Accretion: 16414-96 |
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Box 1 | 1 | ||
Box 2 | 2 |
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.
Contents | Box | ||
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Box 9 | 9 | ||
Box 10 | 10 | ||
Box 11 | 11 | ||
Box 12 | 12 | ||
Box 13 | 13 |
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
Dates | Contents | Box | |
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Accretion: 16414-06 |
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Box 14 | 14 | ||
Box 15 | 15 | ||
Box 16 | 16 | ||
Box 17 | 17 | ||
Box 18 | 18 | ||
Accretion: 16414-96 |
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0000 | 3 |
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
Dates | Contents | Box | |
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Accretion: 16414-06 |
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Box 19 | 19 | ||
Accretion: 16414-96 |
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0000 | 4 |