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 ...

The Karen language hasn’t been taught in schools anywhere in the world since the 1960s in Burma. The St. Paul public schools in Minnesota, however, have set out to change that. Karen, which is ...

St. Paul's Karen Parent Advisory Council first expressed a desire for Karen language instruction in 2015-16, and the cause was picked up by Karen staff members in 2019-20, only to be put on hold by ...

Has Has Erwanpaw, 5, practices writing letters of the Karen alphabet during weekly classes at Hartman Elementary. Iris Moo practices Karen words with Now Lawy Htoo and Datela Htoo Nay, both 5. Susan ...

Karen is the fifth-most common home language of Minnesota students, after English, Spanish, Somali and Hmong, according to state data. About half the state’s 5,000 Karen students attend St. Paul ...