Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
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- Fewer than 2,000 Americans are studying in China today
- Utah education board wins immunity in Mandarin immersion curriculum dispute
- Got kids in Mandarin immersion? These researchers would love to interview you
- A $52,000 private Mandarin immersion school opens as San Francisco Unified’s waitlists grow
- Once again, a district sets out to destroy a Mandarin immersion program
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Author: Elizabeth Weise
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Note that San Francisco Unified says it’s going to create its own K-8 Mandarin immersion school, which parents have long advocated for. Read about that here. San Francisco Chronicle, 8-26-2025 The San Francisco school board Tuesday unanimously rejected a parent-led effort to open a Mandarin immersion charter school in the city, angering families tired of…
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From: The Verona Press The Verona Area International School (VAIS) was recently named #7 in Wisconsin Elementary Schools and #2 in Wisconsin Charter Elementary Schools for 2025 by U.S. News & World Report. VAIS is a public, tuition-free charter school founded in 2010 as a Chinese immersion school. Located at 400 N. Main St. in…
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For your summer reading pleasure, here’s a great and fascinating story about a long-lost Chinese typewriter that was discovered through Facebook. Several outlets picked it up: The New York Time, NPR and a nice video. You can also read about it in the Stanford Report. And should you want to really go down a rabbit…
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Utah is a leader in language immersion schools. This year the state boasted 344 elementary, middle or high schools offered dual language programming, which includes 172 in Spanish and 99 in Chinese. Other languages offered include French, Portuguese, German and Russian. While the schools referenced in the article below are losing students in French and…
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San Francisco’s Mandarin immersion landscape has increasingly one of a new private school opening every few years, as I wrote a few weeks ago. There are currently four, with one more coming. Parents pay up to $44,000 a year for these programs: During that time, the San Francisco Unified School District has opened exactly two…
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I don’t envy these parents trying to do this in notoriously anti-charter San Francisco. Their point is a good one – there are long waiting lists for the city’s two public Mandarin immersion elementary schools (Starr King and Jose Ortega) but the school district won’t open more. SFUSD also doesn’t support the middle school program…
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The Mandarin immersion program at Cpl. Michael Middlebrook Elementary School in Lafayette, Louisiana opened in 2010. It was closed at the end of the 2023-2024 school year due to low enrollment, despite strong opposition from parents. It appears that a local charter school, Lafayette Renaissance Charter Academy, has taken up the Mandarin immersion baton there.…
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