Menlo Park school board says time isn’t right to add Mandarin immersion District wants to optimize current Spanish programs first By Barbara Wood Special to the Almanac  A standing-room-only crowd of parents and proponents of starting a Mandarin immersion program in the Menlo Park City School District next fall failed to get the support of…

BY CHRIS TAYLOR NEW YORK Thu Apr 24, 2014 11:38am EDT (Reuters) – If famed investor Jim Rogers is known for one trait above all, it is for spotting themes early — and betting on them big. So when the co-founder of The Quantum Fund (with George Soros) and author of “Adventure Capitalist” became a father, he…

Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board backs Mandarin program, will reassign 76 students BY JONATHAN M. ALEXANDER jalexander@newsobserver.comJanuary 17, 2014  CHAPEL HILL — After almost four hours of discussion, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board reaffirmed its commitment to a Mandarin program at a local elementary school and voted to remedy overcrowding there by reassigning 76 students to different…

It looks as if they’re adding a second kindergarten class in the St. Cloud, Minn. Mandarin program and have spaces open in both kindergarten and first grade. Just an FYI for folks in that neck of the woods. Check out the parents’ helpful website here. It’s a great example of parents taking the bull by the…

From the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition http://www.carla.umn.edu/immersion/resources.html#listserves Language immersion resources from Global Village Academy in Colorado. http://www.globalvillageacademy.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=237097&type=d&pREC_ID=546478

Proposed state Senate bill seeks to remove prohibitions for school language immersion programs By Laura Dudnick @Lauradudnick TOOLS click to enlarge MIKE KOOZMIN/THE S.F. EXAMINER West Portal Elementary School teacher Jennie Lee leads a Chinese immersion class Wednesday. On Wednesday morning, 22 kindergarten and first-grade students filed into their classroom at West Portal Elementary School, stuffed their…

Parent innovation leads to unusual solution to school frustrations Deepa Fernandes | March 12th, 2014, 6:27am SLIDESHOW 1 of 9 Maya Sugarman/KPCC Founding parents Nancy Baca, left, Duhee Lee and Marian Chen look inside an available classroom at Pasadena Christian Church. The ad-hoc group of founding parents are calling the new school “The Oasis Trilingual Community School.”…