Dual-Language Immersion

5th graders at Park Elementary School and Paradise Valley Elementary School have earned the Pathway Award for the Seal of Biliteracy.

Learning a foreign language, especially at a young age, teaches not just a language as a second language but it becomes an automatic first language, too.

The Natrona County School District has accepted a grant for a Mandarin dual-language immersion summer program at Paradise Valley Elementary School in Casper. District trustees formally accepted the $67,185.30 grant for the STARTALK 2014 program during Monday's board meeting...

Trustees with the Natrona County School District have unanimously approved a recommendation establishing a second dual language immersion program at a Casper elementary school. Trustees approved the new Spanish immersion program at Park Elementary School during Monday night’s regular meeting...

Natrona County School District trustees have unanimously passed a new district policy that advocates the expansion of an optional dual-language immersion pilot program that has, in recent months, gained popularity among parents and state officials...

Natrona County School District trustees are still working on language advocating district-wide expansion of a popular dual-language immersion program. Trustees are trying to build a new district policy that would advocate expansion of the dual-language immersion learning concept at district elementary schools among kindergarten through fifth grade students as long as certain parental support, scho

A popular dual-language immersion program at a Casper elementary school will continue next school year. Trustees with the Natrona County School District unanimously approved a recommendation Monday that expands the Mandarin immersion program at Paradise Valley Elementary School to first grade...

Trustees with the Natrona County School District on Monday postponed a scheduled vote that would have expanded the popular dual-language immersion program at Paradise Valley Elementary School in Casper. Trustees postponed the vote after several unsuccessful attempts to add all-inclusive language to the recommendation composed by Steve Hopkins, the superintendent of Natrona County Schools... Read M

Natrona County School District trustees will decide on whether they want to expand a popular dual-language immersion program at a Casper elementary school next week. Trustees on Monday are slated to vote on making changes to the existing Mandarin immersion program currently in place for kindergartners at Paradise Valley Elementary School...

Gov. Matt Mead likes what he sees from the Natrona County School District’s first dual-language immersion classroom. Mead met with teachers and students from Paradise Valley Elementary School on Thursday to see how the program works...