Two Named To Open Native American School

Thu., June 26, 1997

From Staff And Wire Reports

Two educators were appointed Wednesday to open Spokane’s new school for Native American students this fall.

Spokane School District 81 school board members named Ch’n’na Allen of Plummer, Idaho, as cultural specialist for the Medicine Wheel Academy. Michael Page, who helped create a Nine Mile Falls alternative school, will be a teacher.

The academy is expected to open in the Bancroft Building in north Spokane with about 25 students who have dropped out of school.

They’ll study their heritage as well as traditional subjects such as science and math.

Allen most recently worked as an education consultant in Plummer and has served as a student services coordinator with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe.

Page organized and taught at the Nine Mile Falls Phoenix School, an alternative program. He also served as an adviser on the Washington State Commission on Student Learning, which is helping implement state education reform.

The pair will begin July 1. Their first mission will be selecting students and teaching materials, said Larry Parsons, director for Northeast Spokane schools. , DataTimes

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