Sioux City’s Urban Native Center is offering cash incentives for Native students to encourage them to graduate high school.
The center’s youth coordinators hope it can help address the disproportionate rate of American Indian drop-outs in the Sioux City Community school district. From 2011 to 2021, Native American students consisted of nearly 7 percent of the district’s dropouts. But, they only make up around 3 percent of the district’s population.
The low graduation rates concern Kenneth Provos...