The St. Paul school board voted Thursday night against a plan that would split the district’s Hmong language and culture program to ease overcrowding. Jim Vue, the district’s only Hmong school board member, was the only vote in favor of the proposal.
Instead, the board voted to add another specialist teacher to the middle school and identify ways to better utilize space at both the Txuj Ci elementary and middle schools. Vue was the lone vote against that proposal.
Several Hmong parents who had advocated for the plan to split the program walked out of the school board meeting in anger as it became clear the board would vote down their proposal…