Do Native Americans receive the same educational opportunities as any other ethnic group?

This question can lead to opinionated answers, depending of course on who you ask.

The US Government policy is that the Native Americans receive special awards, benefits, financing and other types of aid to compensate for other factors that reduce educational opportunities for them. Reports by the B.I.A. (Bureau of Indian Affairs) show that these policies are, overall, less than effective.

The other side of the coin, from an American Indian point of view, is that these polices are strife with corruption (corrupt people, and policy applications) that make them wholly useless to aid in educational benefit except to a very select few (maybe 1 in 1,000).