In 1993 there was a campaign by parents trying to get the school to fire a White American teacher who was teaching a class on Ojibwe culture, even though she held fluency in the Ojibwe language and was married to an Ojibwe.[2]
The 2013 the federal sequester caused the BIE to decrease the school's budget by $410,000. Like other BIE schools it relies on funding from the federal government of the United States. The school reduced its academic support programs and increased class sizes.[3]
In an editorial, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, citing the "modern, spacious, and well-equipped" school facility, stated that "Fond du Lac Ojibwe School is an example of what a BIE school should look like."[4]