Education, research and culture

Executive Order 13096: American Indian and Alaska Native Education

President: Bill Clinton

Created an interagency education initiative focused on academic achievement, school readiness, language and culture, technology, teacher recruitment and safe schools.

Status: Revoked.

Is Executive Order 13096 still in effect? No. Revoked and replaced by EO 13336 in 2004.

What does Executive Order 13096 do?

EO 13096 committed federal agencies to a coordinated response to educational disparities affecting American Indian and Alaska Native students. It set six goals, required a comprehensive plan and research agenda, and called for consultation with tribes and education organizations. EO 13336 was signed on April 30, 2004, revoked EO 13096 that day and established a successor initiative aligned with the No Child Left Behind Act; it was published on May 5. Still later orders replaced that framework again.

Administration position: The initiative coordinated programs and policy; it did not create an individual entitlement to funding or alter tribal treaty rights.
SignedAugust 6, 1998
Education goalsSix
Initial plan deadlineTwo years

Before and after

Before the order

Federal Indian education programs existed across agencies without this six-goal interagency plan.

After the order

Education and Interior led a coordinated research, consultation and implementation effort until a successor order replaced it.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Education and InteriorLead the interagency initiativeSuperseded
Federal agenciesDevelop plans and address the six goalsSuperseded
Tribes and Native organizationsParticipate through consultationContinues under later authorities

What happened next

EO 13096 created the initiative.

EO 13336 was signed, created a successor framework and revoked EO 13096.

EO 13336 was published in the Federal Register.