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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1978)
AUGUST 11, 1978 PAGE 3 Trujillo To Oversee Federal Programs The Title IV-Part A Parent Committee, which is composed lof parents, teachers and stu dents, sets goals and objectives and determines the budget — which for the coming year is just over $90,000. They also make recommendations on staffing but do not make final hiring decisions. by Cynthia Stowell The hope of the Tribal Edu cation Committee for a more coordinated educational effort is being partially realized at the district level with the hiring of a federal programs coordinator. John Trujillo is leaving the assistant principal’s job at Mad ras High School to oversee the operations‘of three existing pro grams and one program in the works. Trujillo will be responsible for the staffing, supervision and evaluation of the Title I, Title IV-Part A, and Johnson-O’Mal ley programs, as well as the development of a new Migrant Impact Program (Title I-M). Budgeting and policy-mak ing will be left to the parent committees that have given di rection to each of the programs through the years. Although two of the federal programs — Title IV and JOM — are for Indian students alone, the biggest — Title I — is for any educationally deprived students. Previously these programs func tioned independently without much coordination, making for some overlapping and some gaps. The Tribal Education Com mittee has been holding joint meetings with the Title IV - Part JOHNSON - O’MALLEY OVERSEER - As federal programs coordinator, John Trujillo (center) will be working closely with committee chairmen Lyle Rhoan (Johnson-O’Malley) and Fabian Sutterlee (Title IV - Part A). CDS Photo A Parent Committee and the JOM Committee on a monthly basis since last fall. But the creation of a federal programs coordinator goes a couple of steps further by including Title I FEDERAL PROGRAMS ORGANIZATION: CHART OF WORKING RELATIONSHIPS Tribal Education Assistant Superintendent Parent Advisory Committees -Title 1 -Part A -J.O.M. Title I 'Program J.O.M. Program Title IV, Part A Program and providing for ongoing, daily supervision of program activi ties. If the new position develops as he hopes, Trujillo sees many benefits deriving from it. First, students will gain from activi ties that are designed to meet program objectives which in turn will reflect the goals of the school district and Tribal Coun cil. Trujillo plans to “participate and assist” in activities on site, thus closely monitoring the tu toring, reading and enrichment project in progress. Parents should benefit by being better informed of pro gram activities and being en couraged to get involved. Var ious personnel who have been saddled with supervisory re sponsibilities will be free to focus on the jobs for which they were hired. Federal program staff will be provided with in creased opportunities to develop their skills, said Trujillo. The district-wide effort to coordinate federally funded pro grams arose from the expressed needs of the various program committees, a fact that is under scored by the Title I and JOM’s funding of the new position. What are the federal programs? TITLE IV - PART A of the Indian Education Act came to District 509-J in 1973 to meet the special needs of Indian stu dents. Under Part A, counselors are provided at the Warm Springs Grade School and Mad ras Junior High, community liaisons bridge the gap between three schools and the communi ties, and tutoring has been of fered for the past two summers. Where There Was Sage Brush There Are Buildings We’ve all noticed the two new buildings going up near the Kah-Nee-Ta road that have re placed the sage brush and cheat grass. And, we’ve all asked our selves what in the world is an Industrial Park. The two facilities, one of which is to be a new sub-assem bly plant, (or Tektronix as it is referred to here) and the other a new Tribal Vehicle pool, are due to be completed by early No vember. Costing $502,000 and taking nine months to construct, the buildings will initially accomo date 15 Tektronix and 3 vehicle pool employees. The much needed tektronix famility will enable the staff to more efficiently complete jobs that are assigned them by the company in Portland. Everett Miller, manager of the Warm Springs sub-assembly plant, says it will hopefully increase community awareness and in terest in the projects the staff is involved in. “After we’ve been in the new place for a while, then we’ll think about part-time workers and employing the handicapped,” he said. The Warm Springs plant is known for better quality control than other tektronix plants around. Not only would the new facility increase production capabilities but improve cus- funds have been made available by the' Bureau of Indian Affairs through a contract with the Tribes for the last 4 years. For three years prior to that the funds went directly to the school district. In the coming school year, JOM will -have about $150,000 with which to furnish one-third of the federal pro grams coordinator’s salary, in struction and overhead at the Warm Springs Skills Center, eight teacher aides at the W.S. Grade School, Kindergarten snacks, enrichment activities at all levels, and summer school. TITLE I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1961, serves 509-J primarily in the area of reading. Although a district must qualify for Title I by the number of educationally disadvantaged students it has, Title I programs are available to any student who needs them. Reading programs have existed for students in grades K-8 for fourteen years and this year tutoring will be provided in the high school. Over 200 students are served by Title I each year, at a funding level of approxi mately $190,000. Planning will be done this coming year for the following year’s implementation of TITLE I-M, a Migrant Impact Program. Aimed at Spanish-speaking mi nority students in the system, the program will attempt to ease the cultural adjustments stu dents must make. Trujillo came to the district in 1974 when he took on the position of assistant principal at the high school. Since then he has focused increasingly on the problem of absenteeism, work ing closely with the Tribes’ Education and Juvenile Depart ments. He brings to his new job some long-standing concerns about both Indian and non Indian students and hopes to continue helping them cope with social and emotional adjust ments and develop more posi tive attitudes about themselves. garage will be able to compete with other garages in the area to do the major jobs, noted Man ion. The two new buildings are painted an earth-tone color so they will be appealing to the eye. A five-foot landscaped berm will be sloped to the sides of the buildings making them appear lower-lying than they really are. Faller Killed TAKING SHAPE - The industrial park buildings next to Fire Control on the Kah-Nee-Ta road are beginning to look like the assembly plant and vehicle pool that they will be by October. Wendell Marshall worked on a sign for the vehicle pool, which features a high beamed ceiling and lots of _ tomer relations, as well. The vehicle pool is a brand new idea that will help manage ment better control the 75 cars, buses and vans in the Tribal fleet, according to Enterprise manager Ed Manion. In addi tion, the new facility will pro- vide a secure place to park vehicles overnight and help in concentrating on preventative maintenance, he explained. The pool will service only tribal vehicles, not personal cars. The present garage will remain where it is, being available to CDSPhoto the public as it has always been. The pool staff will be equip ped to do minor repair work and the pool manager will have the right to seek competitively priced services for any major work such as overhauls and ¡body work. Hopefully, the Tribal Jess McCall, a faller from Prineville, who worked for Zane Jackson Logging Company, was killed Monday August 7 at ap proximately 1:30 p.m. when a tree fell on him in the Camas Prairie clear-cut area, about 25 miles northwest of Warm Springs. McCall’s partner, Ken Crad dock said McCall was cutting a tree which fell on another tree. The second tree fell incorrectly and struck McCall, killing him instantly. McCall, 58, had worked in [the woods for 40 years, 7 of .those years for Jackson.
