Education - One new school, three languages - sacbee.com

Education - One new school, three languages - sacbee.com: A new charter school that will teach children in three languages -- Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English -- is scheduled to open in September in the North Sacramento School District with about 120 children in kindergarten through third grade. Students at the Lindsay Global Language Academy, as the charter school is called, will learn all their subjects in the three languages from teachers who are native speakers. And they'll practice conversation skills by participating in video conferences with students in Beijing, Shanghai and Mexico City, said Linda Ventriglia, a former Sacramento City Unified educator who created the school. 'Kids that don't get out of Sacramento now are going to see people around the world,' Ventriglia said. 'We're trying to create a 21st century school.'