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LAUSD Balks on High-Demand Mandarin Immersion Program
Parental demand caused a Chinese language immersion program to outgrow its campus in Venice on LA's Westside. Plans were made to expand it in nearby Mar Vista. Residents there said the program was okay, but didn't want the traffic and other consequences in their backyard. LA Unified's final solution: cut the program in half.
By Warren Olney • • 24m ListenParental demand caused a Chinese language immersion program to outgrow its campus in Venice on LA's Westside. Plans were made to expand it in nearby Mar Vista. Residents there said the program was okay, but didn't want the traffic and other consequences in their backyard. LA Unified's final solution: cut the program in half.
Also, after ten years of fighting, Billionaires' Beach in Malibu opened to public access on the Fourth of July.
Photo: Parents line up outside Broadway Elementary School, original home of the Mandarin foreign language immersion program. Photo courtesy Broadway Elementary School
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2 storiesCan a Public School Program Get Too Popular for Its Own Good?
After five years, the Mandarin Foreign Language immersion program outgrew the Broadway Elementary School in Venice. LA School Board member Steven Zimmer persuaded his colleagues to spend $30 million to expand it and move it to Mark Twain Middle School in Mar Vista. Zimmer predicted a "game changer."
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Tomorrow, beach goers in Malibu will have something to celebrate: public access to Carbon Beach, also called "Billionaires' Beach" because of the multi-million-dollar homes that line that piece of coastline.
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