(NAME-MCE) Secretary Spellings Names Cathie Carothers Director of the Office of Indian Education

[Anselmo Villanueva]

 January 25, 2008

Secretary Spellings Names Cathie Carothers Director of the Office of Indian
Education

U.S. Department of Education

[Source: USDE press release]
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has named Cathie Carothers
Director of the Office of Indian Education within the U.S. Department of
Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Carothers earned her Bachelor
of Science and Master's degree in Education from Northeastern Oklahoma State
University. She has been with the U.S. Department of Education since 1990
and has over thirty years of experience as an educator and manager of
national programs for Indian students and adults. Carothers began her
federal career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as a teacher of
learning disabled students in an off-reservation K-8 boarding school in
Oklahoma. Carothers has been serving as Acting Director of the Office of
Indian Education since October 2007.

The Office of Indian Education supports the efforts of local educational
agencies, Indian tribes and organizations, postsecondary institutions, and
other entities to meet the unique educational and culturally related
academic needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives so that these students
can achieve to the same challenging standards as all students.


http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/01/01222008.html

PRESS RELEASE

Secretary Spellings Names Cathie Carothers Director of the Office of Indian
Education

FOR RELEASE:
January 22, 2008

Contact: Gregg Wiggins
(202) 401-1576

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has named Cathie Carothers
Director of the Office of Indian Education within the U.S. Department of
Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Carothers earned her Bachelor
of Science and Master's degree in Education from Northeastern Oklahoma State
University. She has been with the U.S. Department of Education since 1990
and has over thirty years of experience as an educator and manager of
national programs for Indian students and adults. Carothers began her
federal career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as a teacher of
learning disabled students in an off-reservation K-8 boarding school in
Oklahoma. Carothers has been serving as Acting Director of the Office of
Indian Education since October 2007.

The Office of Indian Education supports the efforts of local educational
agencies, Indian tribes and organizations, postsecondary institutions, and
other entities to meet the unique educational and culturally related
academic needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives so that these students
can achieve to the same challenging standards as all students.