Alamo Navajo School Board
Alamo Navajo School Board, Inc. (ANSB) refers to the entity controlling a K-12 tribal school in Alamo, New Mexico. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). It also maintains a clinic and other public infrastructure in Alamo. History Due to the passage of the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act, a local school board was established in 1979. Alamo Community Navajo school opened with grades K-8 on October 1, 1979. Its initial campus was four portable buildings. The high school was established on December 15, 1980. By 2012 it was the only employer in Alamo. The school board, federally funded, was used as a vehicle to have public works projects without needing to involve the Navajo Nation bureaucracy. Cindy Yurth of the ''Navajo Times'' wrote that it is "the de facto government of Alamo". In 2018 a group of parents criticized the school board for spending $497,000 on expenses not directly related to education. In 2018 a group of parents collect ...
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