DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Parents at an elementary school in Venice are upset that the Los Angeles Unified School District is planning to cut a Mandarin-language immersion class at their school.

While romance languages like French and Spanish used to be the norm, Mandarin is exploding in popularity among students and families. As she counts the numbers in Mandarin, 8-year-old Anna McCuistion ...

In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the ...

Costa Mesa High will offer Mandarin Chinese classes this fall, the first school in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District to do so. The foreign language classes gained unanimous approval from the ...

The bulk of the Bellflower students now learning Mandarin had never heard of the Chinese language before they began studying it in school. “A small percentage of students kind of know what Mandarin is ...

The World Language Steering Committee proposed a plan to add a Mandarin Chinese course at Wilton High School during Monday night's Board of Education meeting. The committee originally intended to ...

DIAMOND BAR >> Walk into Jie Gao’s classroom at Pantera Elementary School in Diamond Bar and it looks much like any other kindergarten classroom — decorated with pictures of colorful geometric shapes, ...

Maryknoll teacher Meiyi Shade, left, plays a word game with Ryder Nievera, Reese Malefyt and Graysen Gier during a Mandarin class. Since introducing the program, it has seen a steady stream of ...

I wonder how many people are doing what I am doing this fine, September evening, upon coming home to “Sabbatical Planning: Lessons Learned the Hard Way,” by Meg Robbins (The Chronicle Review, ...