Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School
A dispute over who should lead an elementary school that serves almost exclusively Native American children has been resolved, just in time for the start of classes next week.
The dispute centered on who would become the new principal of the Onondaga Nation School, which sits on the Onondaga Nation, just south of Syracuse. Parents and Onondaga leaders wanted a nation member who was a teacher at the school to become principal. The local school board, which operates the school under a contract with the state, and has no Onondaga representatives, said that she did not have the proper certification and experience to be principal. The board instead chose a white man, an assistant principal in a nearby district and a colonel in the Army Reserve, but he ultimately turned the job down. . .