Program Serves Native Americans
Parents of public school children of American Indian, Native Hawaiian or Alaskan Native descent may enroll them free in the Ventura County Indian Education Consortium.
Tribal cards and documentation are not required.
The 21-year-old consortium, based out of the Ventura Unified School District, serves about 1,000 kindergartners through 12th-graders in 113 schools countywide.
Teachers visit schools on a monthly basis, educating students about their cultures and offering special counseling, including career, scholarship, personal and academic advice.
The consortium serves eight school districts: Conejo Valley Unified, Fillmore Unified, Hueneme, Oxnard, Oxnard Union High, Rio, Simi Valley and Ventura.
The program receives federal funding on a per-student basis, so parents must enroll by March 6.
For more information, call coordinator Jerry Barshay at 652-7273.
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