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A proposed Truth and Healing Commission to investigate the history of US federal Indian boarding schools remains pending in Congress as the Day of Remembrance for boarding school survivors approaches. The legislation would document abuses and lasting harms from the schools, and advocates continue pressing lawmakers to advance it.

Private donors are paying for the Missouri State Board of Education's search for a new education commissioner and the development of its strategic plan, the Missouri Independent reports. The arrangement raises questions about outside influence over public education leadership and how the state board is conducting key decisions with funding from private sources rather than taxpayer money.

A board of county commissioners in Colorado has approved the Chalk Bluffs project, according to Colorado Politics reporting by Rachel Gabel. No further details about the project's scope, location or conditions of approval were included in the available information, so the exact nature of the development and public reaction remain unclear.