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 ...

Ehtalow Zar is one of the first teachers in the state licensed to teach Karen. In her Karen advisory class at St. Paul's Johnson Senior High School on Dec. 9, she taught students how to cook Karen ...

Hundreds of middle and high school students in St. Paul Public Schools are learning the Karen language. It’s believed to be the first program of its kind in the country. The teaching of the Karen ...

David joined the WCCO team in April 2020, previously working at CBS 58 in Milwaukee. Prior to that, he worked in Las Vegas. While there, David covered several stories in the national spotlight, ...

Dah Bu gathered her kindergartners on the rainbow carpet and asked them to identify the letter she held in her hand. “K!” chorused her students. K is the first letter in Karen, she told her students, ...

Moo said teachers have about two weeks of lesson plans on hand as they continue to create new ones. The Karen courses — one for those new to the language and another for those who speak it at home — ...

Viral videos of predominantly white, middle-aged women redefining the terms “entitlement” and “selfishness” have been one of the few constants this year. It seems they’ve made a real impact. So much ...

St. Paul officials believe the classes are the first to be offered by a public school system in the country.

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Students in most states can earn a distinction on their high school diplomas that acknowledges their proficiency in English and at least one other world language. All 50 states and the District of ...