North Dakota High School Activity Association
Interior Activity & Accomplishments
Wright. President George W. Bush and Secretary Gale A. Norton attended ceremonies on December 17, 2003 to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of flight at the Wright Brothers National Memorial . They helped to dedicate the life-size, interactive sculpture of the brother's first flight, a gift from the Governor and people of North Carolina . The memorial represents t he first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine were made by the Wright brothers on December 17, 1903 . North Carolina is home also to six National Park Service sites; ten national wildlife refuges, two national historic places, and the DOI funded Cherokee Central Elementary School and Cherokee Central High School . ... [Read More]
Interior Activity & Accomplishments
Education: President Bush and Secretary Norton are committed to ensuring that the 48,000 Indian students attending elementary and secondary schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs receive quality educational opportunities and have the tools for educational achievement. The Department convened consultation and negotiated rulemaking sessions across the Nation to help initiate the President's "No Child Left Behind" initiative at Indian schools. The historic education reform law brings BIA-funded schools the four pillars of the President's education reform plan: accountability and testing, flexibility and local control, funding for what works and expanded parental options for children attending failing schools. ... [Read More]
Interior Activity & Accomplishments
President Bush and Secretary Norton are committed to ensuring that the 48,000 Indian students attending elementary and secondary schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs receive quality educational opportunities and have the tools for educational achievement. The Department convened consultation and negotiated rulemaking sessions across the Nation to help initiate the President's "No Child Left Behind" initiative at Indian schools. The historic education reform law brings BIA-funded schools the four pillars of the President's education reform plan: accountability and testing, flexibility and local control, funding for what works and expanded parental options for children attending failing schools. ... [Read More]
Archived: Partners' Activity Kit 1996-97 -- The AMERICA GOES BACK TO SCHOOL: Get Involved! Team
Rabbi Bruce Aft, Congregation Adat Reyim; Leslie Collins, National Engineers Week; Susan Hlesciak Hall, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; Coleman Harris, Mount Vernon High School PTSA; John J. Mahlmann, Music Educators National Conference; June Million, National Association of Elementary School Principals; Gwendolyn J. Cooke, National Association of Secondary School Principals; Maggie Holmes, National Head Start Association ... [Read More]
Interior Activity & Accomplishments
American Horse School Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School Crazy Horse School Crow Creek Reservation High School Crow Creek Sioux Tribal Elementary School Enemy Swim Day School Flandreau Indian Boarding School Little Eagle Day School Little Wound Day School Loneman Day School Lower Brule Tribal School Marty Indian School Pierre Indian Learning Center Pine Ridge School Porcupine Day School Sicangu Owaye Oti (Rosebud Dormitory) St. Francis Indian School Standing Rock - Rock Creek Grant School Takini School Tiospa Zina Tribal School Tiospaye Topa School Wounded Knee District School ... [Read More]
FRB: Beige Book - Minneapolis
Overall retail sales grew modestly. A major Minneapolis-based department store and discount retailer reported same-store sales in August up 5.7 percent compared with a year ago. A representative of a nationwide retailer noted strong back-to-school sales at stores in North Dakota. Storeowners in southwestern Montana reported solid back-to-school sales activity. Two mall managers in North Dakota reported recent sales about at last year's strong levels. In southwestern Wisconsin, recent sales for men's and women's apparel were soft, but jewelry sales were up from a year ago. A representative of a Minnesota-based women's apparel retailer expected September same-store sales to finish flat to up slightly. Some store managers noted that federal tax rebate checks sent to taxpayers with children may have helped strengthen sales. In contrast, high-end stores in two Minneapolis-area malls reported recent sales behind last year's. ... [Read More]
FRB: Beige Book - Minneapolis
Manufacturing activity is mixed. Preliminary results of a February survey of Minnesota manufacturers reveal that production in the first half of 2002 will be higher than the levels of the last half of 2001. However, a January survey of purchasing managers by Creighton University indicated slight decreases in manufacturing activity in Minnesota and South Dakota and slight increases in North Dakota. In Minnesota, a factory that produces industrial abrasives plans to severely curtail output. However, a data storage producer in North Dakota plans to expand output and employees this spring, and a new pasta plant is expected to begin production in April. In addition, a new dairy plant is scheduled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A Montana steel producer plans to expand output to meet demand for a new short-distance rail line, according to a Helena bank director. ... [Read More]
Interior Activity & Accomplishments
Boque Chitto Elementary Choctaw Central High School Choctaw Central Middle Conehatta Elementary Pearl River Elementary Red Water Elementary Standing Pine Elementary Tucker Elementary School ... Applications for new Deepwater Ports for Importing Liquefied Natural Gas: MMS is working with the Department of Transportation and the U.S. Coast Guard to process applications for new Deepwater Ports for importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Federal Reserve Board Chairman Greenspan has highlighted the need for imports of LNG to provide a "safety valve" against natural gas price spikes. The ability to obtain supplies from around the globe during periods of high demand would reduce price volatility in the United States. MMS is working with the Coast Guard and Department of Transportation on the three projects under review as of the end of FY 2003. One is a gravity\-based structure with docking and traditional liquefaction facilities co-located. The second is a new concept that puts liquefaction facilities on board ships that dock at a floating buoy system. The third project would be a permanently moored facility - a floating storage and regasification unit that would transport natural ... [Read More]
Interior Activity & Accomplishments
DOI has also funded new grant programs that seek to put the New Environmentalism into practice: A key one is the Cooperative Conservation Challenge Cost Share program which provides matching funds to a variety of partners dedicated to conservation projects that yield tangible, on the-ground results. In Hawaii, a particularly outstanding project that illustrates this program involves the Fish and Wildlife Service partnering with Leeward Community College, Brigham Young University, Waianae High School Hawaiian Studies Program, and Ka'ala Nursery to restore the native ecosystem of the Ewa Plain along the Coast of O'ahu. The National Park Service, working cooperatively with the Nature Conservancy and the Native Hawaiian Plant Society, reintroduced extirpated plant species and enhanced rare plant habitat in Haleakala National Park. NPS also identified and enhanced nesting habitat for the endangered hawksbill turtle in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, with the help of the Hawksbill Turtle P ... [Read More]
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance --- UnitedStates, 1999
The 1999 national school-based survey employed a three-stage cluster sampledesign to produce a nationally representative sample of students in grades 9--12. Thefirst stage sampling frame contained 1,270 primary sampling units (PSUs), consisting oflarge counties or groups of smaller, adjacent counties. From the 1,270 PSUs, 52 wereselected from 16 strata formed on the basis of the degree of urbanization and the relativepercentage of black** and Hispanic students in the PSU. PSUs were selected withprobability proportional to school enrollment size. At the second sampling stage, 187 schoolswere selected with probability proportional to school enrollment size. To enable separateanalysis of data for black and Hispanic students, schools with substantial numbers of blackand Hispanic students were sampled at higher rates than all other schools. The third stageof sampling consisted of randomly selecting one or two intact classes of a requiredsubject (e.g., English or social studies) from grades ... [Read More]
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