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The Center for Applied Linguistics at the University of Minnesota  keeps one of the best databases on immersion K-12 schools in the country. They’re updating it now – make sure your program’s in there, if you’re a total or partial immersion program in any language. And while you’re at it, check out the MIPC web…

The Lake Oswego School District will offer two half-day Kindergarten Mandarin Immersion classes in 2011-12, contingent upon hiring qualified staff and on achieving sufficient enrollment to support the program. These classes will be located at River Grove Elementary School . Instruction time is 50% in Mandarin and 50% in English. The literacy component of instruction employs the Read Well program,…

        The soon-to-open program (they’re hoping) has  a new web site at  www.cicusd.com

From Patch.com Charter Schools Rally Targets Suburbs Senator Codey calls fight over charter schools a ‘watershed moment.’ By Laura Griffin and Marilyn Joyce Lehren | Email the authors | June 22, 2011    PHOTOS (11)       Sen. Richard Codey told a crowd of about 120 at the Save Our Schools rally in Millburn on Tuesday night that the fight over charter schools…

From Centraljersey.com BREAKING NEWS: PIACS misses imposed zoning deadline DATE POSTED: Monday, June 20, 2011 2:28 PM EDT By Charles W. Kim, The Packet Group Despite several reprimands by the South Brunswick zoning chairman during a meeting on June 2, representatives of the Princeton International Academy Charter School and its proposed landlord missed another deadline.…

Broadway Elementary school, in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, launched its Mandarin immersion program in Sept. of 2010 with two Kindergarten classes. For the 2011-2012 year, the program has been so successful that they’re adding two more, for a total of four Mandarin immersion Kindergartens and two first grade classes. “The Mandarin immersion program…