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Apa community rails against school district
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Contributions Treated Lightly, Says GatheringHOUSTON — On April 19, leaders of Houston's Asian Pacific American community joined forces to show solidarity in speaking out against the Houston Independent School (HISD) lack of recognition of APAs for certain programs before a Texas Education Agency (TEA) public forum.The TEA is the accreditation agency currently assessing the HISD's operations and adherence to standards. half of the HISD's schools have been targeted for the review in order to evaluate academic performance and improvement, the long-range plans and each progress in involving the community. Results of the reviews will be reported in June.The gathering thought the public forum would be an excellent time to let the public and the TEA know how HISD has been viewing APAs for many years when it comes to admittance to enrichment programs and seeking school funding. They found out that are not given minority preference for seating, even when my daughter qualified for the Vanguard Program.APAs are included in the white category. APAs could not qualify as a minority placement and must compete with whites, though whites make up less than 14 percent of HISD's total enrollment, according to Bobby Joe Moon. Moon's review into the HISD's Vanguard Program showed that it is very difficult for APA students to gain into the Vanguard Program, particularly at the elementary level, because of quotas set for blacks, Hispanic, whites and others.Moon also furnished the TEA evaluation team members copies of an HISD-generated report, showing that APA student enrollment numbers are included in the "White and Others" category, which has a quota of about 35 APAs are not allowed to fill the and Hispanics’ quotas when there is a shortfall at a particular school.Other APA community leaders speaking out included Glenda Joe, co-founder of Houston's Council of Asian American Organizations; Raymond Wong, president of the Greater Houston Chapter, OCA and National OCA treasurer; and Norma Benzon, board member of AAC and past president of Filipino American Society of Texas and Council of Philippine American Organizations. The APA turnout totaled about 35 out of a total audience of about 300 people.Susie Wong, a Hong Kong-born mother of an HISD student, told the TEA evaluation team members from all over the state of Texas, HISD administrators, HISD parents and at least three members of the Houston Asian press that it was very difficult to explain to her 1l-year-old son that he could not attend the Vanguard school of his choice, simply because he was not of the right (ethnic) category.Glenda Joe cited the case of the HISD's near employment termination of Japanese American high school art teacher Betty Waki in 1982 from Sharpstown High School, Waki was classified as "white,” when HISD needed to fulfill a court-ordered mandate to desegregate the HISD's teaching staff. At that time, Sharpstown High hadHISD's largest APA student population.Waki continued, "HISD considers us as Asians when it comes to asking for federal funding for programs such as but considers us and when it comes to the Vanguard program and teacher It's time for HISD to formally recognize APAs as a minority group and to show us that HISD appreciates contributions to HISD and Houston."
Seattle community awards
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The International Examiner, the journal of Seattle/King County's Asian American Communities, will honor four “unsung on May 26 at the third annual Asian Pacific American Community Voice Awards dinner at Union Station in Seattle’s ID.This year's recipients are Emiliano Francisco, founder of the Filipino American Tribune (mow the Filipino-American Herald), pioneer and labor leader; Faye Hong, recently retired co-owner of the House of Hong restaurant and generous community supporter; Rev. Jean Kim, founder and pastor of the Church of Mary Magdalene for homeless women, minister at the Campus Christian Ministry Covenant House and advocate for women's rights issues and the disadvantaged: and Phuong-Giang Nguyen, community activist in several organizations including the Vietnamese the Refugee Women's Alliance, and the AsianCounseling and Referral Service.
Census
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In its report released Wednes the bureau noted that more than 31.8 million people speak a language other than English at home. Among those, 15.2 percent do not speak English well and 5.8 percent do not speak it at all.Spanish is the most widely used language after English, with 17.3 million. Among Spanish speakers 17.5 percent speak English poorly and 8.4 percent not at all.The Asian Pacific American population in 1990 was 7,273,662, accounting for 2.9 percent of the nation's total population.Among citizens and residents who speak a language other than English at home, the 11 largest Asian Pacific language groups account for 3,191,341 people aged five and older. Of that 811.628 speak English poorly and 219,111 not at all.In the following sets of figures for Asian Pacific language groups, the first number is those who reported that they spoke English "not well” and the second number is those who spokw English "not at all” in 1990, according to the census report.Chinese: 108,976 Tagalog: 4,708 Korean: 154.617; 33,802 24,993 Japanese: 83,276; 7,820 Thai 10,469 Mon-Khmer (Camb.): 40,921; Miao (Hmong): 26,505; 11,399 Formosan: 1,979 Ilocano: 810 Samoan: 3,129; 413The overwhelming majority (more than 80 percent) of Asian Pacific Americans who speak another language reported that they spoke English either well or very well.Critics charge that bilingual services segregate language minorities and delay their assimilation into the They also complain that the service providers are more with their own jobs than in trying to help immigrants.Such critics — epitomized by U.S. English, a conservative group led through most of the '80s by the late Sen. S.I. Hayakawa claim they can speed assimilation by making English the official language of the U.S. This symbolic act would spur the newcomers to learn English, get off of welfare and other forms of public support, and capture the American Dream as if they were roping a calf at a rodeo.But activists counter that Hayakawa's followers never provided concrete plans for making these dreams come true. For instance, funding for the most basic requirement, was seldom if ever mentioned.
New chinese newscast
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SAN FRANCISCO — KTSF Television recently signed an agreement with Hong Kong's Asian Television (ATV) Network to purchase the rights to ATV's nightly Chinese newscast. News will be delivered from Hong Kong satellite, making same day news coverage available for KTSF Bay Area viewers.This multi-year agreement is another step KTSF Channel 26 is taking to serve Northern California's Chinese population. KTSF management says, with the station's live Cantonese News at 8:00 p.m. and Mandarin News at 8:30 p.m., the satellite delivered ATV news will strengthen KTSF's position as the leader in Asian programming.Call (415) 468-2626 for information.