We are interested in getting our child into two-way immersion kindergarten or, if we don't make it into a kindergarten, one of the partial-immersion elementary school programs. I am having a hard time ...

Superior is one step closer to becoming a bilingual city. The school district is moving forward with its consideration to offer a foreign language immersion school. Following a lengthy discussion, ...

Jefferson Parish public school officials have withdrawn their budget-driven recommendation to eliminate the foreign language immersion program. The Times-Picayune archiveA French sign hangs on the ...

When Beacon Hill Elementary transitions to an international school this fall, its foreign-language immersion programs undoubtedly will be so popular that students likely will have to live in the ...

Students often call out greetings when John Stanford International School Principal Karen Kodama walks down the halls -- but at her Wallingford elementary school she's more likely to hear students say ...

A Covington woman has sued the St. Tammany Parish School Board, saying it failed to provide French immersion classes after she met all necessary requirements for the school system to begin the program ...

Schools across Louisiana will have 80 teachers from around the world in classrooms this upcoming school year as part of an exchange program that bolsters the state’s K-12 foreign language immersion ...

Lafayette Parish public school officials may have made at least two oversights in their attempt to expand the district’s foreign-language immersion programs. Nearly 1,200 students in the district ...

The number of less-intensive Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools (FLES) programs also has increased.“We are expanding the availability of immersion programs and other foreign language options, ...

It’s 10:30 on a sunny spring morning at Ben Porat Yosef: The Sephardic Yeshiva of Bergen County, and the 3-year-olds are seated at low tables, nibbling on animal crackers. Surrounded by books, toys ...

After initially saying it would eliminate six foreign language immersion pre-K programs across the district, the Lafayette Parish School System said it is working to continue the French program at ...