Information on Organization and Functions of the Indian Education Resources Center

The purpose of the Indian Education Resources Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is to provide technical services of monitoring, curriculum evaluation, research and development, and dissemination of information to Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools. The Center has four divisions in Albuquerque and one in Utah. In June 1976, the current Director of Indian Education initiated a reorganization which divested the Center of many of its functions and attempted to centralize staff and operations in Washington, D.C. This proposed reorganization has not taken place, and a 1976 Civil Service Commission (CSC) review found that about half of the Center's personnel positions were overgraded due to an erosion of duties and responsibilities largely attributable to a gradual reduction in staff and funds assigned to the Center. CSC directed BIA to take no further actions to reorganize the Center.