Jakara Movement organizer Jaspreet Kaur speaks in June 2019 at the Merced Union High School District board meeting in support of the Punjabi language classes at Livingston High School. The University ...

WHITELAND, Ind. — Whiteland Community High School is offering students a new foreign language class this year. But it's not foreign to most of the students who signed up. The Punjabi class is helping ...

Mandeep Singh of Livingston speaks on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Merced Union High School District board meeting in support of Punjabi language classes at Livingston High School. Thaddeus Miller ...

A first grader in a Hmong bilingual education class at Hidalgo elementary school in Fresno works on a project in their native language. KURT HEGRE Fresno Bee file Hmong and Punjabi language classes ...

LIVINGSTON, Calif. — There’s a lasting link between the 35-character alphabet used to write Punjabi and the Sikh religion. The Sikh scriptures and the Punjabi language of many Sikhs were written in a ...

Students and parents in Livingston, where about 20 percent of the residents are Sikh Punjabi, said they felt blindsided recently by a decision from high school leaders to end the Punjabi language ...