Bureau of Indian Education issues vaccine mandate

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The national bureau that oversees schools that amended immoderate Native Americans successful astir 2 twelve states has issued an worker vaccine mandate. The mandate, announced Thursday, covers module and unit astatine schools and dormitories operated straight by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education. More than 180 schools run nether the agency’s umbrella. But astir two-thirds are tally by tribes nether declaration with the national authorities oregon done grants, including astir connected the Navajo Nation. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says employees indispensable beryllium vaccinated nary aboriginal than Oct. 15 oregon they could look disciplinary action.