President Donald Trump has promised to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. Education advocates worry about what that means for the $119 billion the federal government sends to public K-12 schools and what becomes of the programs supporting Native American students. We’ll get a sense of what the future for Native primary and secondary education along with concerns from Native educators and policy advocates.

GUESTS

Julia Wakeford (Muscogee and Yuchi), National Indian Education Association policy director

Kimberly Daingkau-Begay (Kiowa, Caddo, and Pawnee), executive officer and president of the Arizona Indian Education Association

Matt Jackson (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma), social studies teacher at Norman North High School

Break 1 Music: I Am the Beginning and the End (song) Dorothy Tsatoke (artist) Native American Healing Songs Come to me Great Mystery (album)

Break 2 Music: Nîmihito (Dance) [Feat. Northern Cree] (song) Sultans of String (artist)