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Associated Press - December 27, 2009 2:05 PM ET
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota is applying for a federal grant to help it build a residential school designed to improve academic achievement among American Indian students.
A limited number of states will receive money from the U.S. Department of Education program, which aims to encourage and reward states that help improve student success.
Under South Dakota's proposal, partners would establish a year-round, residential school for grades 9-12 and two years of postsecondary education. Curriculum would focus on science, technology, engineering and math to address the nation's need for scientists and engineers.
State Education Secretary Tom Oster says the school would likely be based in the Black Hills.
He says preliminary parameters put South Dakota's grant proposal at between $20 million and $75 million.
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