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  • Mandarin immersion K in Fremont, Calif. may add second class

    Chinese Immersion Program Fremont Unified School District is starting a Chinese (Mandarin) Immersion Program at Azevada Elementary School in Fall of 2010 with at least one kindergarten class. One class is full and applications are being accepted on a first-come, first-served basis to potentially open a second class, pending sufficient interest. Applications should be delivered…

  • SF Middle School – New Developments

    Last Tuesday three other parents from the San Francisco Mandarin Immersion Parents Council and I met with program administrator Kevin Chávez to discuss the San Francisco school district’s plans for Mandarin immersion in middle school.  We came armed with a list of questions, but the information he was providing quickly overtook our agenda. For example,…

  • The Wall Street Journal weighs in on the NJ charter – lessons for would-be Mandarin charters

    Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2010 By JOY RESMOVITS New Jersey is preparing to announce the confirmation of at least six new charter schools this week, but proposed charters in Princeton, Teaneck and Flemington won’t be on the list, dealing a blow to a movement to widen school choice to affluent districts. A zoning technicality…

  • Charter foes quash Princeton, NJ Mandarin immersion school plans

    New charter school won’t open in fall Friday, July 16, 2010 By Carmen Cusido STAFF WRITER PLAINSBORO — A group that wants to open a controversial new charter school here with an emphasis on instruction in Mandarin Chinese has run out of time to submit the necessary documents for a September opening, the state Department…

  • Vancouver BC to finally get Mandarin program – in 2012

    Vancouver school trustees have resurrected a proposal to launch a Mandarin bilingual program for the city’s students. Proponents hoped the program would be approved for a September startup, but that idea was nixed as the Vancouver School Board struggled to balance its budget that called for more than $17 million in cuts. In late June,…

  • We need books for our kids in Mandarin

    Finding books for our kids to read in Chinese is a problem, especially for parents who don’t themselves read Chinese. To help get more books into our kids’ hands, Mandarin Immersion Parents Council parents with children in 3rd and 4th grade met last week with  Xiangyan Liu, the Course Materials Editor for NanHai bookstore’s Chinese…

  • Some great immersion readings for parents

    Here are some really wonderful links on Language Immersion Education from the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition: Great back issues of their newsletter on immersion Bibliographies Information for struggling learners Two-way immersion