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Kentucky Kentucky: Linking Business with Education In the Bluegrass State, the Newhaven district superintendent organizes Chinese Economic Awareness Day to build support for his Chinese language program. Eight mayors from the Bluegrass Area Development meet with the state Department of Education world language consultant to discuss ways to bring more such programs to schools in their towns. A key policy-business-leaders mission to China sponsored by the Kentucky World Trade Center and the University of Kentucky Asia Center culminated in a report (PDF 2.1M) that include the following recommendations:
To support these objectives, Louisville and Lexington school districts are implementing Foreign Language Assistance Program grants in Chinese. Northern Kentucky University will use its STARTALK professional development grant to enhance its summer fast-track language teacher certification program. Click here to read the full report. Kentucky has a formalized educational partnership with China. The States also has a sister state parternship with Jiangxi Province, China. Click here to read the MOU. Kentucky does not grant teaching licenses/credentials for Chinese language instruction. For more information, please contact:
Schools with Chinese language programs:
Do you know of other programs or relevant information for this state? If so, please share with us.
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