Video: Watch the DSRM safety inspection of the complex.
The 2012 Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting has elevated efforts across Indian Country to ensure student and staff security in BIE-funded schools and dormitories.
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Dennehotso Replacement School Underway
OFMC builds Arizona boarding school on same site. (Photo: Digging at the February ground-breaking ceremony are (from left) Mae Big, volunteer foster grandparent at Dennehotso; Katherine Benally, Navajo Nation Council delegate; Lillian Begay, community member; Dineh Benally, OFMC Project Manager; and Nathaniel Brown, Dennehotso School Board member.)
[Play Video: Watch the ground-breaking celebration.]
[Play Video: Discover what will become of the school’s five murals.]
OFMC Supplies New Fire Trucks and Training
Firefighters from four BIE-funded schools attend hands-on training. (Photo: Seth Blackbear, a firefighter from Crow Creek Tribal School in South Dakota, came to Albuquerque to learn about his school’s new fire truck.)
[Play Video: OFMC teaches how to use the new trucks.]
OFMC Creates Solar Neighborhood at Ute Mountain
OJS quarters are powered by solar panels; increased insulation leads to energy savings.
[Play Video: See the Ute Mountain Ute Agency Detention Center’s solar hot water and solar power applications.]
Twin Buttes Replacement School Being Readied in North Dakota
OFMC funded the K-8 Twin Buttes Day School replacement project. The new school will be dedicated later this year.
Wide Ruins Ground-breaking Initiates Replacement School
OFMC’s replacement Wide Ruins Community School in Arizona gets underway. (Photo: Miss Wide Ruins Community School Palila Chee participates in the March ground-breaking ceremony for the replacement school.)
[Play Video: See the Wide Ruins ground-breaking celebration.]
[Play Video: See the plans for the Wide Ruins aquarium’s new home.]
