A Mandarin School in Minneapolis
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Breaking Bread
First-graders, from left, Maya Preimesberger, Leigh Preimesberger, Sonja Erickson and Victoria Pekel wait in line during lunch. Yinghua co-founder Betsy Lueth just received an $800,000 US Dept of Ed grant to develop a model for middle school immersion schools.
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