Fond du Lac Ojibwe School is a

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tribal school in

Cloquet, Minnesota Cloquet ( ) is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. Part of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and serves as one of the reservation's three admi ...

. The

Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (or Wayekwaa-gichigamiing Gichigamiwininiwag in the Ojibwe language, meaning "Lake Superior Men at the far end of the Great Lake") is an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) band located near Cloquet, Minnesota. Their l ...

operates the school and owns the facilities. It is affiliated with the

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(BIE).

History

In 1993 there was a campaign by parents trying to get the school to fire a

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teacher who was teaching a class on Ojibwe culture, even though she held fluency in the

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and was married to an Ojibwe. The 2013 the federal sequester caused the BIE to decrease the school's budget by $410,000. Like other BIE schools it relies on funding from the

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. The school reduced its academic support programs and increased class sizes. In an editorial, the ''

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'', citing the "modern, spacious, and well-equipped" school facility, stated that "Fond du Lac Ojibwe School is an example of what a BIE school should look like."
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Fond du Lac Ojibwe School

Fond du Lac Ojibwe School
- DSGW Architecture (page about construction of the school) {{coord, 46.7108, -92.5132, type:edu_region:US-MN, display=title Public K-12 schools in the United States Public elementary schools in Minnesota Public middle schools in Minnesota Public high schools in Minnesota Native American K-12 schools Education in Carlton County, Minnesota Cloquet, Minnesota

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