District Superintendent says students in the program “underperform expectations both academically and behaviorally.” The Daily News, Feb. 25, 2023 By Cory Smith GREENVILLE — A second-language curriculum that has been utilized to teach students how to read and speak Mandarin for more than a decade at Greenville Public Schools is now scheduled to be phased…

Lafayette Daily Advertiser, Lousiana By William Taylor Potter April 6, 2023 About a dozen students from Corporal Michael Middlebrook Elementary School wowed attendees at Wednesday’s Lafayette Parish School Board meeting when they recited the Pledge of Allegiance. Why was their recitation so awe-inspiring? They did it in Mandarin Chinese. The students were part of the…

Stonebrae’s Mandarin Dual Language Immersion Program MANDARIN DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION STONEBRAE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL The Stonebrae Mandarin Immersion Program started in 2007–2008 school year.  We offer a 50/50 instructional model from kindergarten through 6th grade.  Students spend half their day learning in English and the other half learning in Mandarin.   Please see the video here:

West County Mandarin School (WCMS) is a Mandarin immersion, International Baccalaureate (IB) school located in Pinole, California.  WCMS is the first Mandarin immersion public school in California to earn the acclaimed authorization as an IB school.  WCMS opened on August 21, 2017 with three kindergarten classes, and it will grow to K-6 by adding a…

SCHOOL NEWS – New principal takes over at Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary School   by San Diego NEWS staff  September 29, 2022 Kinglsey Chao moved from New York to San Diego in August to become the principal of Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary School. Chao said he and his older brother are “first generation Chinese Americans.” His…

Students at Orion Alternative School (formerly John Gill Elementary) in Redwood City, California took home prizes in this year’s Chinese Bridge Competition. The speech, poetry reading and talent competition is sponsored by the Chinese Consulate of San Francisco and took place in June. You can see some of the award-winning performances here.

As school district fight post-COVID student losses, dual language immersion programs can be a powerful force to attract families, even from other districts. According to the article below: From the very beginning, the program began to attract students from outside the district. This year, 39 students from outside the district are enrolled in the Vietnamese…