From: The Los Angeles Times By HOWARD BLUME On the fourth day of its second school year, an Eagle Rock charter school closed its doors this week, leaving parents and students disappointed, angry and tearful — and bucking the usual narrative of ceaseless charter growth. PUC iPrep Charter Academy had dual-language programs in English and…

From: The Post and Courier By Paul Bowers Low enrollment, financial woes and staffing problems could spell the end for East Light Academy, a Mandarin-language charter school that opened in the Charleston area just one month ago. Small headcounts can lead to financial disaster for charter schools, which receive funding from the state on a…

  It is the first dual-language immersion Friends School in the nation, joining a national network of private schools committed to the social, moral, intellectual and emotional development of each member of its community. The schools will begin with a preschool and Kindergarten and add grades each year. It’s located on five acres of stunning campus…

[Note: The sentence below is the only thing about the school in this article, but it’s interesting that the name has been changed. The school’s website is here. From the San Diego News by DAVE SCHWAB Published – 08/24/18 Barnard has a new name, and continues to be the only TK-5 Chinese Mandarin Immersion Program…

By Paul Bowers From The Post and Courier Aug 22, 2018 This fall at East Light Academy, a Mandarin language immersion school, teachers in pre-kindergarten through first grade will speak only Mandarin to their students for most of the day. “It’s like dropping somebody in the water, and they have to do something to survive,”…

The American grass-roots school movement immersing children in Mandarin School districts, parents, and administrators are driving the growth in programmes that teach US primary school pupils to read, write and exercise in another language despite broader anti-China sentiment   From: The South China Morning Post By Simone McCarthy PUBLISHED : Saturday, 08 September, 2018, 11:03pm…

From the San Gabriel Valley Tribune By KAYIU WONG | kwong@scng.com | August 26, 2018 For some kindergartners starting school this year in the San Gabriel Valley, their first teachers are just as likely to greet them with “hola” or “ni hao” as “hello.” These are the experiences thousands of students encounter as they start…