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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alterations to all of the charters and a change to charter school admission rules that prevent language-based admission preference.[/quote]

Why do they all have to be altered?  And can't an entrance exam be required to get into this school (in English & target language)?  There was a thread floating around about making a TJ in DC--they require an entrance exam.[/quote]

First of all, none of them are currently chartered all the way through 12th grade, so that would have to be altered.

Second, they have to create a structure that allows their students preferential admission, without requiring an entrance exam (that would probably not conform to the charter law).  However, if the DCI is chartered as an extension of their respective programs, then it shouldn't run into trouble.  So, students graduating from the partner schools could automatically continue.  However, if there were spaces left-over they could conceivably hold a lottery for new students.  That would allow them to make a bigger school, and expand the scale, if they liked.

The new students wouldn't have the immersion experience in their background, but they could conceivably start studying one or more of the three languages beginning at the middle school level, and have a good background to pursue the IB Diploma when they hit 11th & 12th.  After all, not every student around the world who goes after an IB Diploma began in an immersion school.  It would be real leg up though.  And the partner-school students could pick up a 3rd language, so coming from Stokes' French track, students could choose to pursue either Spanish or Chinese as a 3rd language, starting at middle school.

Look at WIS's website for an idea on how it could work.

Also, both Yu Ying and LAMB have been granted space at the (beautiful!) Walter Reed campus, so the DCI would have a building to work with.

It does sound like a dream come true![/quote]

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