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support special education services for students aged 3 to 5 year's old,including$18,264 from the early child- Report of the hood special education (262) grant and $48,850 from Mashpee Public Schools the Inclusive Pre-School (391) grant. The Special Indian Education Program Education Administrator applied for a competitive i grant and received $20,716 from the Special t Education Program Improvement (274) grant to pro- The Mashpee Public Schools Indian Education I vide training and professional development for special Program was developed in 1972 and is offered s education staff. The district also received, over the through the United States Department of Education I course of the 2011-2012 school year, Circuit Breaker Title VII Indian Education Formula Grant. a reimbursement of$298,243, plus $26,349 of extraor- dinary relief for FY12. In addition, Medicaid reim- The Indian Education office is based at the bursement in the amount of approximately Mashpee High School and services Native American $191,011.64 was returned to the Mashpee Town Hall, students at the Kenneth C.Coombs,Quashnet,Middle totaling $515,603 in total reimbursement received. and High Schools. h This reimbursement amount plus the total amount of It grant funding of$534,482(including the CFCE grant) Tribal Nations represented in the current Indian Y received for FY12 equaled $1,050,085 received from Education Program are comprised of Apache, d state and federal funding to support young children Aquinnah Wampanoag,Blackfoot,Cherokee,Herring i and special education students in the Mashpee School Pond Wampanoag, Mashpee Wampanoag, Navajo, s, District. Nipmuc, Ojibwe and United Confederation of Taino d People. 9 r Our program is comprehensive and focuses on meeting the needs of Native American students through tutoring,counseling and cultural awareness to rl assist Native American students in the achievement of >> meeting required state standards. is Students obtain services by returning the h required ED 506 forms establishing their Tribal n Cultural identity through their Tribal Roll status as e well as permission forms signed by parents and/or guardians for program participation. Progress towards the goal of tutoring is measured by analysis of stan- it dard state test scores relating to math and language S arts achievement. d e Staff consists of a program coordinator, psy- chotherapist, cultural advocate, and tutors who also c possess a cultural awareness of the Native American population. The Parent Committee who oversees the f progress and development of the program includes school staff, students and parents/guardians of Native f j American students. In June of 2012, there were a total of one hun- dred and seventy students serviced. Six Native i American students received their diploma from Mashpee High School. i 157