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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public language immersion programs are set up in different ways in different US cities. DC doesn't seem to try attract or accommodate native speakers to programs that don't teach Spanish.

One of my cousins sends his children to a public immersion program in Northern Cal with three different admissions lotteries: one for kids who don't speak Chinese at home, one for kids who speak any Chinese dialect but Mandarin at home, and one kids from Mandarin dominant homes.  Each lottery provides one-third of the students.  Another cousins sends her children to the D'Avila School in San Fran where all students are put in 50% immersion Cantonese through 5th grade. Cantonese is used to attract native speakers, around 3/4 of whom are Cantonese or Toisanese (sub-dialect of Cantonese) speakers in the Bay Area, to promote high standards for speaking.  The D'Avila students transition from Cantonese to Mandarin in MS, with most going on to knock it out of the park on standardized HS Chinese exams. 
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DCPS ONLY has immersion studies in spanish, and they absolutely balance the classes with native Spanish and English teachers. I

Charter schools, which are newer, can't and don't.

LAMB did balance classes by language for several years (including when my kids started there) by holding a Spanish and English lottery, and allocating seats i each class equally. They intentionally looking at how Oyster had done it and copying the process.

That continued until enough English-dominant people who couldn't get in complained that it wasn't allowed under the charter law, and the charter board and its lawyers agreed. LAMB stopped the practice and no one has challenged the legal ruling since.

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