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"ching chong ching chong” /Rosie
Palo Alto Unified School District can expect to receive $201,418 in federal money to help increase foreign language instruction, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling announced today—surprising school officials.
...The grant is part of the federal National Security Language Initiative intended to address the shortage of critical foreign language speakers. The initiative aims to boost the number of Americans studying Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Farsi [Korean and Urdu] and others in programs from kindergarten through college.
So what language are they talking about? More Espanglish, right? Creo que no..
... a Mandarin immersion program… [opening with] a kindergarten and a first-grade class in fall 2008
Hunting this I found Mandarin immersion program articles from these other places:
[CA], KY, FL, OR, MA, Canada, OH, MI, MN, WI, ID, CT, NJ.
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