World Language Immersion Program Expands for 2015-16 School Year Date Posted: Wednesday, January 7th, 2015 Categories:  Department of Education News Office of Governor Markell Next fall, more than 2,300 kindergarten through third grade students will be enrolled in Governor Jack Markell’s World Language Expansion Initiative, as six more schools across the state begin offering students the opportunity to participate…

David Sarasohn: King School’s Chinese immersion program (OPINION) By David Sarasohn For The Oregonian May 29, 2015 at 2:54 PM By David Sarasohn First graders, having recently escaped from Sesame Street, spend a lot of time working on shapes and colors. So last week in inner Northeast Portland’s King School, 10 first graders were working,…

Bilingual classes in Hong Kong public schools suit Chinese and non-Chinese alike Two public schools have stepped up to the challenge of providing cost-effective options for bilingual learning PUBLISHED : Monday, 26 January, 2015, 6:15am UPDATED : Monday, 26 January, 2015, 6:15am Michele Koh Morollo life@scmp.com Non-Chinese speaking students at HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No 3…

At the beginning of May, the California State Board of Education approved, with a landslide vote, the Wei Yu International Charter School. Wei Yu will be the first Mandarin immersion charter school in Santa Clara County, and it is scheduled to open for the 2016-17 school year. The journey to approve Wei Yu took the…

Just in: ‘Game changer’ to game over for Westside ‘immersion’ school Posted on May 27, 2015 11:10 am by Craig Clough LA Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines has cancelled the district’s plans for a proposed construction project at a Westside school campus that was to house an expanded foreign language immersion program. Explaining the rationale for his decision in a three-page memo to members…

Boren Scholar with a talent for study abroad makes plans for China May 8, 2015 – 1:08pm When she was in kindergarten, Megan Garland did the usual things 5-year-olds do — she counted, she colored, she learned Chinese. She didn’t know it then, but China would soon fill her horizon, and no mere ocean would…

  [I added in a tidbit at the end: LAUSD has had a 20% decline in enrollment in the past 8 years and is looking to better market itself…] The Los Angeles Unified School District has decided to cut the highly successful Mandarin immersion program at Broadway Elementary from four classes of incoming Kindergartners to two, thus…