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"The Learning", documentary film about teachers from the Philippines brought in from overseas to be employed in the Baltimore school system; Tancinco, Lourdes Santos, "Hundreds of Filipino teachers in Maryland face uncertainties", Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 16, 2011
The Filipino American Studies Program (FAST) began as a direct result of a request from the newly appointed Director of Asian American Studies, Larry Hajime Shinagawa.. During the Fall of 2006, he asked Jonathan Sterlin and the executive board of the Filipino Cultural Association, who played a substantial role in the establishment of the University of Maryland's Asian American Studies ...
American schools have also hired and sponsored the immigration of Filipino teachers and instructors. [431] Some of these teachers were forced into labor outside the field of education, and mistreated by their recruiters. [432] Among Overseas Filipinos, Filipino Americans are the largest remitters of U.S. dollars to the Philippines.
Filipino Americans numbered 8,509 people in 2000, 0.3% of the Baltimore metropolitan area. [13] In 2000, the Tagalog language is spoken at home by 2,180 people in Baltimore. [30] An annual Philippine-American Festival is held in Towson, a suburb of Baltimore. The festival includes Filipino cuisine, dances, and a parade. [37]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Onofre Bejona spent his 34th birthday riding the bus alone, readying himself for the next three years of his life. It was Aug. 14, and the teacher had arrived in Broward ...
Asian-Americans in Maryland are residents of the state of Maryland who are of Asian ancestry. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Asian-Americans were 6.1% of the state's population. [1] The ten largest Asian-American populations in Maryland are Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Pakistanis, Japanese, Taiwanese, Thai, and Burmese.
A small Black community in Anne Arundel County goes back to the 1800s. Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and freed slaves worked and lived together.
David Mercado Valderrama (born February 1, 1933) is a Filipino-American politician from Maryland. He served as a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1991 to 2003 [1] and was the first Filipino-American elected to a state legislature on the mainland United States, as well as the first Asian American and first Filipino American elected to the Maryland General Assembly.