Its mission is to promote academic excellence and social wellbeing for Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard-of-Hearing students using an ASL/English bilingual approach.
[1] MNSA opened in 2003; previously most deaf high school students in the Minneapolis area either attended local high schools with deaf interpreters or boarded at MSAD.
[1] In 2015,[4] the school began hosting a "Confucius Classroom", a program for teaching students Chinese language and culture.
Cloud State University Confucius Institute established the program, which involves teaching Chinese Sign Language.
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