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San Francisco’s Mandarin immersion landscape has increasingly one of a new private school opening every few years, as I wrote a few weeks ago. There are currently four, with one more coming. Parents pay up to $44,000 a year for these programs: During that time, the San Francisco Unified School District has opened exactly two […]
San Francisco parents trying to start a K-8 Mandarin immersion charter – good luck with thatJul 9, 2025
I don’t envy these parents trying to do this in notoriously anti-charter San Francisco. Their point is a good one – there are long waiting lists for the city’s two public Mandarin immersion elementary schools (Starr King and Jose Ortega) but the school district won’t open more. SFUSD also doesn’t support the middle school program […]
The Mandarin immersion program at Cpl. Michael Middlebrook Elementary School in Lafayette, Louisiana opened in 2010. It was closed at the end of the 2023-2024 school year due to low enrollment, despite strong opposition from parents. It appears that a local charter school, Lafayette Renaissance Charter Academy, has taken up the Mandarin immersion baton there. […]
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 […]
110 years of "The Language Pledge” at MiddleburyJun 11, 2025
Middlebury College’s language summer camps are legendary. I still remember when a guy who was in my Mandarin class at the University of Washington disappeared over the summer and came back talking like he’d been in Beijing, but said he’d been in Vermont – I was very confused. I had no idea how old the […]
