Tag: News

  • KAWC | By Howard Fischer, May 30, 2024 Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — State schools chief Tom Horne has been ordered to pay more than $120,000 in legal fees over his unsuccessful bid to quash dual-language instruction in Arizona schools. The new order comes more than two months after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper…

  • An interesting article from western Massachusetts, where the school superintendent of the Amherst-Pelham School District is concerned that a Spanish immersion program at a district school is a school within a school which creates “a troubling level of segregation based on language proficiency” as the local newspaper put it. It’s interesting because the program they’re…

  • 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…

  • Delaware’s state-wide immersion program includes 13 schools with Mandarin immersion programs with about 1,300 students. Delaware Public Radio By Larry Nagengast   With nearly 10,000 students currently enrolled and new grades still being added, Dual Language Immersion (DLI) programs are solidifying their position in Delaware’s public-school landscape. Announced in 2011 by former Gov. Jack Markell and…

  • Like many school districts, St. Paul Public Schools in Minnesota has struggled with enrollment decline. But the addition of language immersion programs, which now include Spanish, Mandarin, French, German and Hmong, For the first time since 2018, St. Paul Public Schools’ enrollment decline was barely noticeable. The district schools that have added the most students…

  • 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…

  • FROM Westside Today Broadway Elementary Offers Mandarin Immersion Program Broadway Elementary School (k-6) offers Mandarin Immersion Program this Fall 2010 with 2 Kindergarten Classes Broadway Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has announced that it is launching an English-Mandarin Chinese dual-language immersion program starting in September 2010. Broadway Elementary School, located…