Mandaree School District No. 36 is a school district headquartered in

Mandaree, North Dakota Mandaree (Hidatsa language, Hidatsa: Adixoodagoorahareesh) is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKenzie County, North Dakota, McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 596 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Man ...

. It is on the

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. It is in McKenzie and Dunn counties. It is also affiliated with the

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(BIE). It is also known as Mandaree Day School.

History

In the 1970s the principal, Robert Schumacher, started a radio station called KRSS. In 1995 the school had 256 students.
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. In 2004 the

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(BIA), the parent agency of what became the BIE, investigated the

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program after parents made complaints. In April 2020, Kirsten Baesler, the state superintendent of education, approved the school having a four-day week instead of a five day.

Culture

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traditions and, as of 1995, promotes abstaining from drugs and alcohol.

References

External links

Mandaree School District
School districts in North Dakota Education in McKenzie County, North Dakota Dunn County, North Dakota {{NorthDakota-school-stub