Southeast Portland started what will become the nation's only kindergarten-to-college Chinese immersion program in 1998 - a public school with an immersion Mandarin program! Of course the area has pre-schools and weekend Chinese schools teaching Mandarin too.
If you want to read it all, The Oregonian might ask you for your zipcode and year of birth - but you can at least start the Mandarin Rising article without sharing anything.
1 Feb. 2007 addition: maybe I should retitle this "Cheers and Jeers"
Meanwhile according to today's New York Times Palo Alto Board Rejects Classes in Mandarin. (After a certain amount of time, only subscribers will be able to see the whole article.) Only part of the issue seems to be that since it could not (or would not) be offered to everyone that it might "give the small group of students in them an unfair advantage."1
1 - quote from Palo Alto Board Rejects Classes in Mandarin, By Jesse McKinley, February 1, 2007, The New York Times.
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