STEVENS POINT – A new year-long elective class aimed at helping Hmong students connect to their heritage launched this year at Stevens Point Area Senior High. The class is focused on teaching students ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A North Valley district is rolling out a new Dual Language Immersion Program. In kindergarten teacher Senda Chang's classroom, students are hitting the books in not one ...

For Choua Lor, a 2nd grade teacher at Vang Pao Elementary in Fresno, Calif., teaching is a calling. But working in the school’s Hmong dual-language immersion program is what she calls her life’s ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Students are leaning into learning more about the Hmong and Khmer cultures and languages. The pages of books are coming to life in Padao Thoa's class this summer. Students are ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. It’s presentation day in a fifth grade ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. “Hmong is a stateless nation,” said Bee Vang-Moua, director of the Hmong program ...

Fifteen Hmong Educators earned their Minnesota K-12 World Languages & Cultures teaching license with an emphasis on Hmong language and culture from Concordia College in Moorhead. CATHY WURZER: You ...

When Bouasvanh Lor would come home to Merced from college at CSU Stanislaus, her parents would pretend they forgot English to force her to practice Hmong, the family’s mother tongue. Back then, she ...

It’s presentation day in a fifth grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary School in Fresno, and some students are more shy than others. But 11-year-old Irene Her stands in front of the classroom, ...