LAist, by Josie Huang, June 6, 2022 Chinese and Vietnamese are, after Spanish, the most commonly spoken non-English languages in California, but they’re rarely taught in public schools because there’s not enough teachers to do the job. The state issued nearly 1,200 bilingual accreditations in the 2020-2021 school year, but only 63 were for Mandarin…

Some highlights: Delaware now offers Chinese immersion in 13 schools to 1,300 students. In the Mandarin program, students take the AP exam in 9th grade and then can take college-level Chinese classes in high school, allowing them to graduate one course short of a Chinese minor. Of the 100 students who began in the first…

A Whole Site Modernization project is underway for Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary School at 2445 Fogg St. The school offers a Mandarin Chinese immersion program giving students from K-5 instruction in core academics in both English and Mandarin Chinese. The cost of Whole Site Modernization is projected to exceed $15 million with an anticipated construction…

Remaining monolingual is a surefire way for America to fall behind BY GLENN C. ALTSCHULER AND DAVID WIPPMAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS 05/15/22 8:30 In a multilingual world, the United States remains a mostly monolingual country. Even though roughly 70 million Americans speak a language other than English at home, almost 80 percent speak English only. In Europe,…

The article below says All Souls is the only Catholic elementary school in the country offering a dual-language immersion program featuring Spanish and Mandarin. That’s indeed true. There are however two other Mandarin immersion Catholic schools, St. Michael’s Catholic Acadamy in Flushing, New York and Maryknoll School in Honolulu. — Dual language immersion program brings…

O.B. Gates Elementary School in Chesterfield County, Virginia, launched its Mandarin immersion program in the fall of last year, making it the first program in the state. That brings us up to 68% of states having at least one Mandarin immersion program. These are the 16 states that still don’t have one: AlabamaArkansasConnecticutIowaKentuckyMaineMississippiMontanaNebraskaNew MexicoNorth DakotaPennsylvaniaSouth…

This coming weekend the National Chinese Language Conference will take place virtually. Hundreds of Chinese teachers and school staff will be in attendance – it’s not too late to sign up, so if you were wondering what to get your Mandarin immersion teacher as a year-end present, well, it’s one possibility beyond yet another Target…