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Transcript: Kenneth H. York, Ph.D.


[York:]
Silver Star was generating enough funds for us to do several things. One was we began to establish new facilities for our schools. We have new schools in each of the communities, and we have six community schools that they have new facilities now. Two of the schools—no, I’m sorry, three schools have middle school components going up to the eighth grade, and then they all feed to the Choctaw Central High School, which is a centralized school, and all of the schools and the elementary schools are new schools and casino funds played a part in that. The Bureau of Indian Affairs funded half of some of these new schools, and then the tribe used casino funding to help build schools.