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Fresno County and Sacramento County combined have almost 12,000 Hmong students. [30] As of 2002, of the Hmong students who took the California English Language Development Test, which measures English fluency in students who are learning English, 15% of those identifying as Hmong scored at the "advanced" or "early advanced" classifications.
Fresno County and Sacramento County combined have almost 12,000 Hmong students. [12] Hmong language speakers were the third largest English as a second language group in California schools in the 1995-2005 period. As of 2010 there were about 30,000 students of Hmong descent.
Many Hmong refugees resettled in the United States after the Vietnam War. Beginning in December 1975, the first Hmong refugees arrived in the U.S., mainly from refugee camps in Thailand; however, only 3,466 were granted asylum at that time under the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975. In May 1976, another 11,000 were allowed ...
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Thousands of Hmong community members gathered at Cal Expo this weekend to celebrate the Sacramento Hmong New Year festival, an annual cultural celebration in the city with the second-largest Hmong ...
Former Minneapolis officer Tou Thao’s role in the death of George Floyd has thrust the city's Hmong refugee population into the national discourse around race. The actions of Thao, who is Hmong ...
By the end of the Vietnam War in the mid-1970s, new waves of refugees began settling in the United States. Among them were the Hmong; an indigenous people of Eastern China and Southeast Asia, who settled in American ghettoes, where they faced prejudice, bullying and racism. Hmong families were constantly robbed and physically assaulted.
Lao Family is working to turn the former Vagabond Inn in downtown Sacramento into a campus devoted to assisting homeless people find work, housing.