CAN COMMUNITY CONTROL OF INDIAN EDUCATION WORK?
Robert Cooper and Jack Gregory Robert Cooper is a graduate of the Masters degree program in Indian Education at Arizona State University. He received his B.S. in Elementary Education from Rhode Island College, Providence. Jack Gregory is an Assistant Professor on leave from the University of West Florida. At present a graduate assistant for the Center for Indian Education, he is a doctoral student at Arizona State University. In THE coming years, Indian communities will be contracting for the operation of their schools. Recent legislation has provided a long needed move towards local control of community education. Alvin M. Josephy Jr., in his study of the Bureau of Indian Affairs of 1969, stated: “Indians had long asserted, but usually to deaf ears, that the individual tribes knew better than the government what kinds of programs they needed and wanted, and that if they could play decisive roles in the planning of such programs, they could with technical and financial assistance, demo
