Tarwater Elementary School, located in Chandler, Arizona, has the only Mandarin Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program in the Chandler Unified School District. The Chandler Unified School District ...

Ada Rios Torres grew up speaking Spanish in Puerto Rico. When she was 25, she taught herself English by watching and listening to videos. It took her five years to master the language. She moved to ...

Brenda Amparan leads her first graders in Spanish at Pueblo Elementary School in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Sept. 16, 2025. Dual-language programs benefit all students, but there is an accessibility issue ...

Kennedy Stanley’s first day of kindergarten was not normal. In many ways, she was similar to her kindergarten peers in other Alachua County Public Schools. Like them, her mom, Kayela Stanley, drove ...

Dual language, or dual immersion education in the U.S. refers to formal schooling in two languages, typically starting in Kindergarten or first grade and, ideally, sustained and articulated through ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — As you walk the halls of Rosa Parks Elementary, you’ll hear a mix of Spanish and English as kids arrive for the first day of school. Third grader Lincoln Oien started his ...

Meeker Elementary School will offer a dual language immersion option for the 2024-25 school year. Dual language immersion helps students become fully proficient in English and Spanish through ...

The United States lost ground over the past decade in the proportion of elementary schools that offer foreign-language lessons, following a decade during which those schools had increasingly launched ...

Milford Public Schools has launched a dual language program for kindergarten students at Memorial Elementary School.

The Spanish-English language programs will start at Discovery Elementary and Freedom Elementary. Students will learn science, math, and language arts in both English and Spanish.

The Portland Public Schools board voted Tuesday night to close down the neighborhood school program at Lent Elementary, shifting the school to dual language immersion only next year. The decision was ...