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Want to know what’s up with Mandarin immersion programs in the US? Looking for information on how to help your child’s school? Trying to convince your school district to open a new Mandarin immersion program? There’s a new report out for you. Published this month, it titled, “PreK – 12 Mandarin Immersion Programs in the…
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I don’t follow the politics in Florida, nor, really, the for-profit private school market. But this is an interesting story about how it’s all playing out in Florida. For the purposes of this blog, what’s interesting is that the Spring Education Group has 15 Mandarin immersion schools, 14 in northern California and one in southern…
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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…
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The U.S. government has implemented a $100,000 feet for H-1B visas, which are meant for highly skilled workers coming to the United States. The previous fee was around $7,500. Will this impact Mandarin immersion programs? Possibly, but it’s not clear how many teachers come in on these visas. In the past, many districts made use…
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Note that San Francisco Unified says it’s going to create its own K-8 Mandarin immersion school, which parents have long advocated for. Read about that here. San Francisco Chronicle, 8-26-2025 The San Francisco school board Tuesday unanimously rejected a parent-led effort to open a Mandarin immersion charter school in the city, angering families tired of…
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San Francisco’s Mandarin immersion landscape has increasingly one of a new private school opening every few years, as I wrote a few weeks ago. There are currently four, with one more coming. Parents pay up to $44,000 a year for these programs: During that time, the San Francisco Unified School District has opened exactly two…
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I don’t envy these parents trying to do this in notoriously anti-charter San Francisco. Their point is a good one – there are long waiting lists for the city’s two public Mandarin immersion elementary schools (Starr King and Jose Ortega) but the school district won’t open more. SFUSD also doesn’t support the middle school program…
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