Education

The Central Consolidated School District Board of Education voted 5-0 on June 11 to approve a three-year contract extension for Superintendent Steve Carlson.

Three Saint Michael Indian School graduates received Eve’s Fund tribute scholarships during the school’s May 30 commencement, where 28 students graduated.

Diné College student Sheldon N. Chee defended his master’s thesis in biology May 4, becoming the sixth graduate in the biology master’s program and the second Honors Scholar to complete his graduate and undergraduate degrees at the same time.

Shayla Chatto, a Diné scholar whose work centers on state-mandated PK-20 Native and Indigenous education, will join the University of New Mexico’s Department of Native American Studies as a 2026-27 postdoctoral fellow.

Thirty-nine students from 16 high schools earned the 2026 Navajo Nation Seal of Bilingual Proficiency, a recognition for students who demonstrated proficiency in Diné Bizaad and English.