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Parents, students urge Lakeside board to restore Mandarin instruction at middle schools
Summary
A parent and a student told the board the district no longer has a pipeline for Mandarin student teachers after the Confucius Institute contract ended and that there is currently no job posting or contract to fill the role. They asked the board to act quickly to secure Mandarin instructors for both middle schools.
Parent Crystal Grobner told the board she moved into the Lakeside district for multilingual programs and said the district currently lacks a Mandarin teacher pipeline following the end of a Confucius Institute contract.
"Without the Confucius Institute contract, we no…
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