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  • What does a university Mandarin flagship program look like?

    There’s one in at Western Kentucky University, here’s some info. Some of the flagship programs have been discontinued, but this one is going strong. Something to think about as your students start thinking about college. https://www.wku.edu/chineseflagship/ https://www.thelanguageflagship.org/ https://www.thelanguageflagship.org/chinese

  • California schools that need foreign workers for teacher jobs can’t afford new visa fee

    By Sophie Sullivan and Alina Ta, CalMatters, Dec. 14, 2025  There is a new cost to hiring an international worker to fill a vital but otherwise vacant position in a California classroom: $100,000. In September, the Trump administration began requiring American employers to pay a $100,000 sponsorship fee for new H-1B visas, on top of already required visa application fees that…

  • Update on Wyoming’s only Mandarin immersion program

    Cowboy State Daily, Dale Killingbeck January 27, 2025 Casper Elementary School Is Only Public School In State To Offer Mandarin In Dual Language Immersion Paradise Valley Elementary School in Casper is the only public school in Wyoming that offers Mandarin Chinese in a dual-language immersion setting where students spend half the day learning that language…

  • I think Mandarin immersion has arrived – you can now read a romance novel set at an MI school

    A new career. A new school.And a very inconvenient new crush. I’m not sure I could have envisioned, back in 2005 when I first started going to meetings with the San Francisco Unified School District about starting a Mandarin immersion programs here, that twenty years later I’d be reading a romance novel set at a…

  • A look at Seattle’s dual language programs

    Dual Language Programs Empower Students with Bilingualism Seattle Public Schools: January 8, 2025 Seattle Public Schools offers K-12 dual language immersion pathways in Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin Dual Language Programs Empower Students with Bilingualism It’s time for math at McDonald International Elementary, and Miwa Casper is breezing through her lesson with ease. The 5th-grade Japanese immersion…

  • Dept. of Defense cuts support to 5 college Mandarin programs

    The programs being cut include the Language Flagship program in Mandarin at these schools: Note that these schools are still offering Chinese and still have Chinese majors, they’re just not getting the additional support they had from the flagship program. That leaves eight Mandarin Flagship programs open at these schools: Defense Department Cuts 13 of…

  • New Mandarin immersion school list posted

    I’ve spent the last two weeks going through the full Mandarin immersion school list and have updated and cleaned it up as much as I am able. There are still some gaps (Examples: Just when was the Baltimore International Academy East founded? Does Triad International Studies Academy in North Carolina use traditional or simplified characters?)…