MADISON, Wis. — West Side parents are gathering signatures on petitions requesting that the Madison School Board reconsider the name of the city’s new elementary school.
The board voted to name the school after Hmong leader Gen. Vang Pao.
Pao lead CIA-supported Hmong forces who fought beside U.S. troops in Vietnam. A few years ago, Hmong protested a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor’s book that claims Pao was involved in drug trafficking and war crimes.