WGBH

In Arkansas, schools are supposed to teach in English. Here’s how one district gets around it.

“This one just got here in March. She wasn’t enrolled,” says Carlnis Jerry, lifting an eyebrow and nodding her head toward a third-grader who is speaking in Marshallese. It’s a Wednesday, and Viona ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Marshallese adoptions raise some suspicions

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. >> The pregnant women have come to Hawaii in small groups, ...
KAIT

Arkansas courts seek Marshallese interpreters

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas court officials are looking for Marshallese language interpreters because a lack of qualified interpreters has courts turning to out-of-state help over the phone or ...
The Spokesman-Review

Marshallese students build traditional sailing boat in summer class

The Marshall Islands include 29 low-lying coral atolls and five single islands. The islands’ total area comes to 70 square miles, about the size of Washington, D.C. The islands are about halfway ...
The Spokesman-Review

After years, Congress restored Marshallese residents’ right to Medicaid. How Washington’s push to get them signed up is playing out

KENNEWICK – On a hot summer day last August, a Kennewick Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was open but not for a church service. Instead, the church gym was being used by the Pacific ...
Arkansas Times

After 3-decade battle, Arkansas’s Marshallese community can finally apply for SNAP benefits

Arkansas’s Marshallese population will finally be able to apply for certain public assistance programs starting in October after nearly three decades of being denied access to such services because of ...