ST PAUL, Minn — "You have to start from scratch. You have to learn everything from scratch," said Eh Tah Khu, co-executive director of the Karen Organization of Minnesota. Eh Tah Khu recalls his ...

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 ...

David joined the WCCO team in April 2020, previously working at CBS 58 in Milwaukee. Prior to that, he worked in Las Vegas. While there, David covered several stories in the national spotlight, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of First Baptist Church of Waukesha sing 'Joy to the World' in the Karen language Karen community members sing the Christmas classic in their own language during a Sunday service on Dec. 15.