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No English allowed: Inside Honolulu’s bold new classrooms Story by Sandy Harjo Livingston HONOLULU (KHON2) — In classrooms across Honolulu, bilingual education is reshaping how students learn, connect and see the world. At Kamehameha Schools, Maryknoll School and St. Louis School, language is more than a subject. It’s a tool for global citizenship and cultural understanding.…
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The Mandarin immersion program at the school is also expanding, from one class per grade up to three per grade, beginning with its transitional Kindergarten next year. From the Redwood City Pulse by Neil Gonzales / ContributorSeptember 15, 2025 10:38 am Orion Alternative School in Redwood City recently garnered top honors for its programs, particularly the…
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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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