{"id":30551,"date":"2013-04-20T21:43:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T21:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30551"},"modified":"2013-04-20T21:43:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T21:43:33","slug":"hamilton-school-board-asks-aboriginal-families-to-self-identify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30551","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton school board asks aboriginal families to &#8220;self identify&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/hamilton\/news\/story\/2013\/04\/19\/hamilton-aboriginal-self-identity.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton school board asks aboriginal families to &#8220;self identify&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/hamilton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton<\/a><br \/>\n2013-04-19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taylor Ablett<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamilton-Wentworth_District_School_Board\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton Wentworth District<\/a> School Board is asking aboriginal families to \u201cself identify\u201d as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Nations\" target=\"_blank\">First Nations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9tis<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inuit\" target=\"_blank\">Inuit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are encouraging families to self-identify because it will enable us to determine programming and supports to increase First Nation, M\u00e9tis and Inuit student success and achievement,\u201d said Sharon Stephanian, Superintendent of Leadership &amp; Learning in a press release. The board will keep the information collected confidential.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The information will only be used for the purpose of developing relevant support programs, services and resources\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The board has sent out notices to parents and caregivers of children under the age of 18 and directly to students over 18&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/hamilton\/news\/story\/2013\/04\/19\/hamilton-aboriginal-self-identity.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton school board asks aboriginal families to &#8220;self identify&#8221; CBC News Hamilton 2013-04-19 Taylor Ablett The Hamilton Wentworth District School Board is asking aboriginal families to \u201cself identify\u201d as First Nations, M\u00e9tis, or Inuit. \u201cWe are encouraging families to self-identify because it will enable us to determine programming and supports to increase First Nation, M\u00e9tis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,19,8],"tags":[14458,14455,14456,14457],"class_list":["post-30551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-cbc-news","tag-hamilton","tag-ontario","tag-taylor-ablett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}