Author: Elizabeth Weise

    PHOTO BY BRYNA GODAR Siblings Cassidy and Cormac Calcaterra in their uniforms at Yinghua Academy. Chinese immersion schools growing in popularity BY BRYNA GODAR NORTHEAST PARK — At Yinghua Academy, children’s art lines the walls – thumbprint trees, traced hands, self-portraits. It looks like most elementary school hallways, but the kids have signed their…

OP-ED: West Orange Council of PTAs Weighs in on Charter School Application Council urges residents to sign a petition opposing the approval of the Hua Mei Charter School. 9:23 am       Upload Photos and Videos Dear West Orange Families: We need your support to save our district’s funding and not allow the State Department of…

French immersion charter school gets green light to open in Portland next fall Published: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 7:09 PM     Updated: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 7:32 PM  By Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian  Follow 2 Tweet ShareEmailPrint On a 4-3 vote, the Portland school board tonight approved the launch of a publicly funded French immersion elementary school in…

Dual-immersion in the neighborhood McPolin will hold a meeting at the school on Dec. 15 Megan Yeiter , The Park Record Posted: 12/13/2011 04:42:12 PM MST Several parents and community members are concerned about McPolin Elementary School’s dual-immersion program, which is set to be implemented next year. According to Park City School District Director of Curriculum…

After a lengthy public hearing and discussion Monday, the Portland school board is poised to decide Thursday whether to approve the metro area’s first public French immersion school. Backers of the proposed Le Monde Public Charter School want to open a 400-student full immersion French language school in Southwest Portland next fall. They would start with…

Hua Mei Charter School Makes First Cut in Latest Review Proposed charter school would draw students from West Orange By Karen Yi Email the author December 13, 2011      Charter schools are inching ever closer to West Orange. The charter school application for Hua Mei, a Mandarin-immersion school that would draw students from West Orange, is one…

58 Kindergartners Apply to Learn Chinese An early enrollment period nets nearly five dozen signups for for the county’s first public Mandarin Chinese immersion program, scheduled to start next fall in Capo Unified. By Penny Arévalo Email the author December 12, 2011      Fifty-eight kindergartners signed up for the county’s first public-school Mandarin Chinese immersion program…