A Hmong Charter School Where Success Is Starting to Lead to Integration
Article/Op-Ed in Education Post
March 7, 2018
In the Education Post, Conor P. Williams profiled Minnesota's Noble Academy, a school started by the Twin Cities' Hmong-language community:
I recently visited a high-performing charter school in a low-income urban area. Like so many others—like the one my kids attend in Washington, D.C.—it was founded by members of a local community of color to provide a better public school option for their children, for kids who were being persistently underserved by their traditional public schools.
It’s an old story, right? Well, sort of.
This one isn’t built around serving the linguistic and cultural needs of Spanish-speaking families (like my kids’ school) or African-American students (like other urban charters). Rather, Noble Academy is a Hmong-language school in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, just northwest of the Twin Cities. And though it was designed by—and for—the Hmong community, the school is starting to appeal to other families, as well.