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Olson has 720 students who reflect the changing face of Minneapolis: a third of them are "European American," a third of them are African American and almost a third are Asian American--mostly Hmong from Southeast Asia. With 78% of the students eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch, Olson is one of the city's poorer middle schools, but in last year's state reading tests, Olson came in third among the seven middle schools...
...brought together more Hispanic families than anyone else in California," he claimed. "Same goes for Hmong, Khmer, Vietnamese... There isn't a racist bone in my body...
...water we drink. When I speak in urban grade schools, their No. 1 issue is the rain forest! That is disempowering, when these communities are surrounded by incinerators and toxic dumps." At the student coalition, he pushed a lead-poisoning education project with materials in English, Spanish, Hmong and Vietnamese...
...American communities are deeply ambivalent on the issue of affirmative action, but one thing is clear: they do not wish to be used as rhetorical pawns by its (white) opponents. In perpetuating the myth of Asian Americans as a "model minority," Mansfield ignores the socioeconomic diversity of Asian America. Hmong, Laotian and Cambodian American communities, for example, have higher rates of poverty on average than African American and Latino communities, and Filipino Americans--the second largest Asian American group--are underrepresented at nearly all the nation's top schools. Mansfield ignores, or is ignorant of, the continuing obstacles facing Asian...
...disputes that English will be the common language of all Wausau citizens. "Right now we are like a new baby learning to walk and talk. But that will change," says Blong Moua, a Hmong job-placement counselor. The change has already started. Though 40% of Hmong are unemployed, nearly 90% of Hmong students graduate from high school--the same rate as among their white counterparts. "I don't know how much time it will take," says Peter Yang, who heads the Hmong Mutual Association. "But a Hmong can become mayor of Wausau...