French Education minister Pap Ndiaye visits the New York French American Charter School in Harlem, New York, where 120 children receive bilingual education. "It's very important that French, which has historically been associated in the United States more with the East Coast elites, is represented by a school such as NYFACS in a working-class neighbourhood where African-American families and West African families live, which testifies to the cultural and multicultural vitality of our language," says Ndiaye. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES