Novato Unified School District’s board of trustees voted 7 to 0 Tuesday in favor of a new plan to add dual immersion classes starting in the sixth grade at San Jose Middle School.

Dual language instruction: a statewide paradigm shift Until 2016, school districts in California were severely limited in their ability to offer bilingual education programs because Proposition ...

School visits, along with interviews with HISD leaders, parents and teachers, indicate that students in dual-language programs are receiving instruction both in English and Spanish, though not ...

The dual language program has students learning the same classes in two different languages. One week of instruction might be in English, the next in Spanish, alternating between them.

Dual-language programs generally don’t allow new students after first grade, says Brandon Locke, director of world languages and immersion programs for the Anchorage School District in Alaska.

Dual language programs expanding to 10 local schools A new bill aims to support 10 new programs each year statewide. In Snohomish County, most follow a 90-10 model of Spanish and English.

Students in Hampton City Schools’ Dual Language Immersion program spend half the day learning in English and half the day learning in Spanish.

By adding a class each year, the dual-language program will reach kindergartners through 12th graders by the 2029-30 school year, according to the school district’s website.

During the 2018-2019 school year, roughly 1,500 schools had some kind of bilingual or multilingual program, including 747 dual-language immersion programs.

With some schools in Arizona starting this week, here is what parents need to know about dual language programs.

Dual language immersion programs are becoming more popular in the state as more districts start their own programs.