A question I have, perhaps someone can answer this – do bilingual teachers receive more pay than monolingual ones? In San Francisco, they don’t. Buying a Mandarin curriculum certainly costs money, and having a specific dean for it is an extra salary expense. But how does it cost $1.2 million extra to run the program?
June 10, 2026
In a reversal of an earlier decision, the Prince George’s County school superintendent announced on June 4 that the Chinese immersion programs at Paint Branch Elementary School in College Park, Greenbelt Middle School and Largo High School will continue with full funding for another year.
Earlier this year, the county proposed to close the all-student immersion program at Paint Branch, which costs approximately $1.2 million a year to operate with 12 to 15 bilingual teachers and a dedicated dean. In addition, county officials said they intended to phase out the smaller programs at Greenbelt Middle and Largo High by denying admission to new sixth- and ninth-graders but allowing students already enrolled to continue in immersion until they graduated.
Please read more here.
Mandarin Immersion Parents Council 
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