A University of Arizona program for Indigenous students will receive a combined $2.4 million in new state and federal funding.
According to its website, the Indigenous Teacher Education Program supports Indigenous students in the College of Education in order to increase the amount of Indigenous teachers in the field.
“The funding is critical for us because we’re actually part of a larger goal of ours [which] is to contribute to the efforts that have been ongoing for the past almost 20-22 years ...