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By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER Weighing the public education options for his two children, El Cerrito doctor Michael Jugo felt the East Bay fell short. He wanted them to have an advantage he didn’t have growing up: learning Chinese at school. “The writing was on the wall that there wasn’t going to be an option for…
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From Sampan, New England’s Chinese newsletter. Diverse supporters of Mandarin immersion school unite by Staff Writer on December 17, 2010 Lisa Du Breuil and Mary Xiaohui Breuil -a Caucasian mother and her five-year-old Chinese-born daughter – arrived early and grabbed front row seats at a public hearing held at Boston City Hall on December 7. …
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D220 approves Chinese classes By Carolyn Rusin TribLocal reporter Yesterday at 12:56 p.m. Barrington School District 220 will offer a Mandarin Chinese immersion program for tots through teens next fall, now that the board of education has voted to accept a $1.5 million federal matching grant for the program for five years. School board members…
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from the Barrington Patch Board of Education Accepts Chinese Immersion Grant On Dec. 7, the Barrington 220 Board of Education accepted a federal grant that will allow Mandarin Chinese language instruction to be taught at the elementary school level. The new program will begin in the 2011-2012 school year. Barrington 220 School District is the…
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And they’re looking for a principal…. YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED. Now, we are searching for a founding principal. Overview New Mandarin immersion public charter school in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks an experienced and entrepreneurial leader to head an academically rigorous K-8 program that graduates students who are bilingual, biliterate and…
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From the Vancouver Sun in British Columbia, Canada. ==== B.C. needs more Mandarin immersion classes, prof says By Graeme Wood, With A File From Janet Steffenhagen, Special To The Sun If B.C. truly wants to be a “gateway” for business with China, it will have to invest in more Chinese-language classes from kindergarten to university,…
