Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
recent posts
- Fewer than 2,000 Americans are studying in China today
- Utah education board wins immunity in Mandarin immersion curriculum dispute
- Got kids in Mandarin immersion? These researchers would love to interview you
- A $52,000 private Mandarin immersion school opens as San Francisco Unified’s waitlists grow
- Once again, a district sets out to destroy a Mandarin immersion program
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Author: Elizabeth Weise
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SALT LAKE CITY — A legislative committee is recommending no change to how Utah’s dual language immersion program is funded. During a meeting Thursday of the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee, the chairs announced they recommend retaining the roughly $7.3 million funding for the program that allows students to learn languages such as Chinese, French, German, Spanish and Russian. This…
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What’s interesting about this for Mandarin immersion parents is that the Spring Education Group, which owns more than 220 schools in 19 states, runs Stratford Schools in Los Angeles and San Francisco. One of those San Francisco schools offers a Mandarin immersion program. I had not realized Stratford was part of such a large, for-profit…
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Bochen Han in Washington South China Morning Post 27 Dec, 2023 What does Washington, DC, have in common with Provo, Utah? Or Greenville, Michigan? Or Overland Park, Kansas? All are home to publicly funded Mandarin immersion programmes, where kids as young as three years old spend half of each school day taking their regular classes –…
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K-dramas out of Korea get all the press, but there are popular ones in Chinese as well. Here’s a nice list of high school and college-age-focused dramas, all romances (are there any other kind?) To watch them it looks like one might have to get an account on Rakuten Viki, which is an Asian-focused streaming…
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OCDE Newsroom, Education News from Orange County and beyond By Vicky Nguyen, Feb. 16, 2023 Students in the Anaheim Elementary School District as young as transitional kindergarteners will soon be learning and speaking Mandarin. With the Board of Education’s stamp of approval and support from district families, the school district is expanding its dual language…
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I just heard from a teacher who had taught in the Jenks Public Schools Mandarin immersion program that the district is phasing it out and no new Kindergarten classes have begun since the 2021-2022 school year. The program was established with great fanfare in 2010. It launched at Southeast Elementary School in Jenks and fed…
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Lucie Krisman Sep 13, 2023 Blue Valley task force nearly finished analyzing Chinese Immersion program A group of parents, teachers and administrators tasked with helping determine the fate of Blue Valley’s Chinese Immersion program is nearing the end of its work. For months, the group has been working toward a solution to the sustainability concerns the…
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