Early mornings at the new Oceti Sakowin Community Academy are a joyous time for the roughly 28 kindergartners who attend and the two staff members who teach them.
RAPID CITY, S.D. Early mornings at the new Oceti Sakowin Community Academy are a joyous time for the roughly 28 kindergartners who attend and the two staff members who teach them. Before classes begin, students join in a circle and sing the “Four Directions” song in Lakota, and students shake one another’s hands and […]
Native American students in the K-12 public school system in South Dakota have trailed their white peers in every academic metric for generations, and recent attempts to allow for Native-focused charter schools have failed.
Early mornings at the new Oceti Sakowin Community Academy are a joyous time for the roughly 28 kindergartners who attend and the two staff members who teach them.