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).
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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
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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
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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.