There is a petition created recently to help get Lunar New Year recognized as a National Holiday. If this petition gets 25,000 signatures by February 14, 2013, the White House will review it and respond. For those who are interested, please sign the petition on the White House website...
http://wh.gov/E8hi
Our nation is composed of a wide array of nationalities and cultural
background. It is imperative that we as a diverse nation to recognize
and acknowledge that diversity. The Asian population represents a large
percentage in U.S.'s population and is growing ever more. Students in
public schools voluntarily take off from school to spend the Lunar New
Year holiday at home with families. Yet, they are marked absent for
their in-attendance. Please make this important holiday widely
recognized and make it an official day off for students too. The
holidays in our calendar year already consists of holidays from
different cultures and definitely has room for Lunar New Year too.