Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
Tag: schools
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The dates in this story are a little hard to follow. The first Cantonese immersion program in the San Francisco Unified School District was a West Portal Elementary school, in 1984. That program continues to this day. Principal Szeto was hired to work at West Portal in 1986. But the program was just a strand…
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The Lafayette Parish School Board voted on Wednesday to shutter the Chinese immersion program at Cpl. Michael Middlebrook Elementary School, bringing the language program to an end after 14 years. The board voted 4-3 to close the program, which will cease operation at the end of this school year. Middlebrook Elementary saw a decrease in 114 students…
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Cherrywood Elementary School in San Jose, California is recommended for closure in 2025-2026 due to declining enrollment. The school’s Mandarin Dual Immersion Program is a concern for the school district and community. It’s not entirely clear to me this is happening, not seeing any decisions but the program is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year. If…
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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…
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I’ve spent the last two weeks going through the full Mandarin immersion school list and have updated and cleaned it up as much as I am able. There are still some gaps (Examples: Just when was the Baltimore International Academy East founded? Does Triad International Studies Academy in North Carolina use traditional or simplified characters?)…
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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…
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I’ve posted the full list as of February 1, 2024. We’re up to 394 schools in the United States that I’m aware of. If there are schools that aren’t on the list, please contact me. Click here to access the list page. Updates February 2024 ADDITIONS Pacific Academy Private Costa Mesa, CA K – 8…
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