Massachusetts: Chinese school lands $1.5M grant

Harold Schiffman haroldfs at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 19:25:22 UTC 2008


Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


Amherst Bulletin



Chinese school lands $1.5M grant



The Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School observed two
milestones Monday: Parents toured its new quarters at the former
Kidsports in Hadley and organizers announced the school has received a
$1.5 million Foreign Language Assistance Program grant from the U.S.
Department of Education. The first public or private Chinese language
immersion school for elementary school-age children in New England,
according to its principal Kathleen Wang, the school opened in a tiny
Pomeroy Lane strip mall in Amherst.



Full story:

http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/103354/





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 Harold F. Schiffman

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 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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