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Verna Cly-Begay practices making a bed during her nursing class at Navajo Technical College. The program, which is in it's first semester of classes, is proving to very popular among students. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

Congress restores local college’s funding through August

By Vida Volkert
Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — Legislators got the message.
Members of the U.S. Congress have finally understood the importance of tribal technical colleges on the reservations, and in a last-minute decision restored the funding for these institutions in the continuing resolution for fiscal year 2011, according to Carrie Billy, president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, an advocacy organization based in Washington.

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