Author: Elizabeth Weise

Officials weigh possible charter school challenge Wednesday, April 20, 2011 BY ANDREA HUGHES The Item of Millburn and Short Hills of The Item Superintendent of Schools James Crisfield will host an open discussion on the process of charter school applications Monday, May 9 at 7:45 p.m. in the Millburn High School auditorium. The public can…

Proposed Mandarin-Immersion Charter School in Jeopardy The school needs zoning approval and an occupancy permit from South Brunswick by June 30; charter official says district cares more about money than children. By Greta Cuyler | Email the author | April 19, 2011   new   The September opening of the Princeton International Academy Charter School…

At the tours for the Chinese Language Conference in San Francisco last week, Wendy Cheong, with the San Francisco Unified School District’s Multilingual and World Languages department shared the current SFUSD standards for Mandarin immersion students. She has kindly made them available to parents as well. Please note that these are works-in-progress. As our program…

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Are you attending this weekend’s  National Chinese Language Conference? If so, we want you! Over 1,000 teachers and administrators attend the conference — and each of you represents hundreds of families with children in Mandarin immersion. If you hear a workshop, see a product or just chat with folks from other programs about things that…

Connect, Innovate, Lead Save the Date! April 14-16, 2011 Hilton San Francisco Union Square San Francisco, CA Co-organized by the College Board and Asia Society, this year in collaboration with the Mandarin Institute, the National Chinese Language Conference is dedicated to encouraging dialogue in the field of Chinese language education and ensuring wide-scale success. Last…