Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
Tag: Immersion Programs
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There’s one in at Western Kentucky University, here’s some info. Some of the flagship programs have been discontinued, but this one is going strong. Something to think about as your students start thinking about college. https://www.wku.edu/chineseflagship/ https://www.thelanguageflagship.org/ https://www.thelanguageflagship.org/chinese
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By Sophie Sullivan and Alina Ta, CalMatters, Dec. 14, 2025 There is a new cost to hiring an international worker to fill a vital but otherwise vacant position in a California classroom: $100,000. In September, the Trump administration began requiring American employers to pay a $100,000 sponsorship fee for new H-1B visas, on top of already required visa application fees that…
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A new career. A new school.And a very inconvenient new crush. I’m not sure I could have envisioned, back in 2005 when I first started going to meetings with the San Francisco Unified School District about starting a Mandarin immersion programs here, that twenty years later I’d be reading a romance novel set at a…
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Dual Language Programs Empower Students with Bilingualism Seattle Public Schools: January 8, 2025 Seattle Public Schools offers K-12 dual language immersion pathways in Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin Dual Language Programs Empower Students with Bilingualism It’s time for math at McDonald International Elementary, and Miwa Casper is breezing through her lesson with ease. The 5th-grade Japanese immersion…
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SALT LAKE CITY — A legislative committee is recommending no change to how Utah’s dual language immersion program is funded. During a meeting Thursday of the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee, the chairs announced they recommend retaining the roughly $7.3 million funding for the program that allows students to learn languages such as Chinese, French, German, Spanish and Russian. This…
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From the Asia Society. Jamila Nightingale is doing great work here in the San Francisco Bay area to support African-American families with children in Mandarin immersion programs. I strongly encourage schools to reach out to Parents of African American Students Studying Chinese (PASSC) to talk about creating groups in your own schools and districts. San Francisco’s very…
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On June 9, 2010, the Fremont School Board unanimously passed a resolution authorizing staff to proceed with planning for a Chinese (Mandarin) Immersion Program (CIP) in Fall 2010, pending availability of privately raised funds. The vote was a major victory for parents and the community, who have been lobbying the Fremont Unified School District and…
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