Author: Elizabeth Weise

From Centraljersey.com BREAKING NEWS: PIACS misses imposed zoning deadline DATE POSTED: Monday, June 20, 2011 2:28 PM EDT By Charles W. Kim, The Packet Group Despite several reprimands by the South Brunswick zoning chairman during a meeting on June 2, representatives of the Princeton International Academy Charter School and its proposed landlord missed another deadline.…

Broadway Elementary school, in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, launched its Mandarin immersion program in Sept. of 2010 with two Kindergarten classes. For the 2011-2012 year, the program has been so successful that they’re adding two more, for a total of four Mandarin immersion Kindergartens and two first grade classes. “The Mandarin immersion program…

The school district in Orinda, Calif (a northern suburb of San Francisco) is  exploring the possibility of starting a Mandarin immersion program in one of its elementary schools. The School Board has opened the discussion but doesn’t necessarily believe there will be  be 20 students who want to start a kindergarten class there in the…

  UPDATE: Based on available funds, tuition assistance consideration will be given to all applicants. Please  distribute this message to  colleagues and friends?  Ask them to  register online ASAP to reserve a seat before it’s too late.   Dear Friends, The Mandarin Institute in conjunction with STARTALK will offer a K-12 Chinese Teacher Preparation Program…

The Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) in Orange County, California is interested in starting a Dual Language Mandarin Chinese Immersion Program and would like to start it for the kindergarten class of 2012-2013. That means the District is recruiting students.  Please forward this to anyone you know who may be interested. Capistrano Unified School District…

From the sound of it, St. Paul will be getting a new Mandarin immersion Kindergarten class added into an already existing Spanish immersion school. Is this correct? Just checking. From MinnPost.com St. Paul’s Spanish immersion school celebrates 25 years By Joe Kimball | Published Fri, Jun 3 2011 7:18 am It was 25 years ago…