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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.
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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.
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 ...
There are 32,000 members of the Hmong community in Sacramento. ... and be together,” said Sacramento City Councilwoman Mai Vang, a Sacramento native and daughter of Hmong refugees from Laos ...
Lao Family is working to turn the former Vagabond Inn in downtown Sacramento into a campus devoted to assisting homeless people find work, housing. They help refugees find jobs and housing. Can ...
Vang was born in Laos to a family of Hmong descent. During the Laotian Civil War, Vang spent most of his childhood in a refugee camp in Thailand before he and his siblings relocated to the United States in 1980 and settled in California. [2] Vang lived in Sacramento and enlisted in the California National Guard at age 21.
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 ...