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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you find yourself in Jenny Yang’s third-grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary in southeast Fresno, you’ll hear students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the mornings in the Hmong language. When ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s presentation day in a fifth grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary School in Fresno, and some students are more shy than ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. It’s presentation day in a fifth ...

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 ...

If you find yourself in Jenny Yang’s third-grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary in southeast Fresno, you’ll hear students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the mornings in the Hmong language. When ...

Inside Look is a Fresno Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. In 2018, parents from southeast Fresno's vibrant Hmong ...