$12 million in U.S. Grants to Foreign Language Schools

The U.S. Department of Education will issue more than $12.4 million to schools looking to establish or expand programs in foreign languages critical to national security, officials recently announced. The grants promote the instruction of Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Arabic, as well as languages in the Indic, Iranian and Turkic families. Recipients include education departments, local school districts and individual schools in 24 states and the District of Columbia. Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School is the only D.C. school to receive a grant – about $290,000 – to ...

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