The sum of all previously incurred deficits or opportunity gaps in education for American Indians communities and communities of color. The education debt includes four aspects:
1) the historical lack of access to formal public education for certain groups of people (historic debt);t
2) historical and contemporary inequities in school funding, income disparities related to different levels of education, and general wealth disparity (economic debt);
3) the disenfranchisement of people of color at local and national levels (sociopolitical debt); and
4) the disparity between what we know is right and what we actually do (moral debt)