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Beyond McCleary — Education opportunity: Equal but Unequal? Legislators tackling student-achievement gap

March 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Alice Day WNPA Olympia News Bureau Advocates for minority and low-income students are urging legislators to take a closer look at the state’s McCleary obligation to ensure that all students are given equal and ample opportunity to achieve in school. One bill would require state agencies to assess the potential negative impacts of education […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2013, 2015, African American Black, American Indian Alaska Native, English Language Learners Accountability Task Force, HB, House Bill, House Education Committee Chair Rep, King County Asian Pacific Islander Coalition, Lillian Ortiz-Self, Native Hawaiian, Pramila Jayapal, Senate Bill, Sharon Tomiko Santos, Solid Ground, Tony Lee, Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program, Vol 34 No 10 | February 28 - March 6

State health insurance program now covers more kids and teens

March 1, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

More children and teens in Washington state now qualify for health insurance through Apple Health for Kids. Apple Health for Kids, a free or low-cost health insurance program for kids and teens in Washington state, seeks to provide an affordable health insurance option to families across the state.

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2013, AHFK, American Indian Alaska Native, Apple Health, Asian Pacific Islander, Catholic Charities, Desautel Hege Communications, Governor Gregoire, Hispanic Latino, Vol 32 No 10 | March 2 - March 8, attention, poverty

Census seeks changes in how it measures race

August 18, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat “Hispanic” as a distinct category regardless of race, end use of the term “Negro,” and offer new ways to identify Middle Easterners …

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, African Americans, American Indian Alaska Native, Angelo Falcon, Arab American Institute, Arab Americans, Asian American Justice Center, Asian Americans, Asian Indian, Census, Census Bureau, Census Director Robert Groves, Middle Easterners, Nicholas Jones, Terry Minnis, Vietnamese

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