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  • Nation’s oldest Mandarin immersion school moves, adds middle school language pathway

    The Chinese American International School, founded in 1981, is the oldest Mandarin immersion school in the country and, as far as I can tell, the world. It’s long been split between multiple buildings, for preschool, grade school and middle school, to accomodate its growing student population. Until last year the grade school shared a building…

  • Private Mandarin immersion schools flourish in San Francisco

    There’s also the Stratford School in San Francisco, which is a chain that has some Mandarin immersion at some of its schools, including the one in San Francisco. That brings to five the private Mandarin immersion schools in the city (including the one opening next year) compared with just two public Mandarin immersion schools. As…

  • Hawaii’s only Mandarin immersion program reaches 6th grade

    Honolulu’s Maryknoll School is one of three Catholic Mandarin immersion programs in the nation. Maryknoll’s Mandarin immersion program enters its sixth year Maryknoll School is preparing to introduce its incoming sixth graders to the next stage of its Man­darin immersion program, in which 80% of their classes will be taught in Mandarin. The program is…

  • Mandarin Immersion sleepaway camp near New York

    I’ve visited HudsonWay and know the staff and program, it’s a great school and I bet their camp, which sounds like a full-on Parent Trap camp but with immersion, is cool. A little easier to get to than China or Taiwan. HudsonWay International Sleepaway Camp We welcome students ages 8-13 to experience a 2-week international sleep-away camp…

  • San Jose-area Spanish immersion school adds Mandarin enrichment

    This is an interesting model for a school with an existing immersion program. Beginning in the fall of 2023, Randall Elementary School north of San Jose added Mandarin to its school curriculum. Randall is part of the Milpitas Unified School District Randall is the only district school that offers a bilingual Immersion program. The ethnic distribution…

  • Utah won’t cut funding to its renowned immersion programs

    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…

  • DeSantis suspends scholarships to Florida schools with ‘ties to the Chinese Communist Party’

    What’s interesting about this for Mandarin immersion parents is that the Spring Education Group, which owns more than 220 schools in 19 states, runs Stratford Schools in Los Angeles and San Francisco. One of those San Francisco schools offers a Mandarin immersion program. I had not realized Stratford was part of such a large, for-profit…