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Academy signs deal for schools in China
by Outspoken on Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:02 am
Academy signs deal for schools in China
By Nick Sambides Jr.
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
LEE, Maine - Agreements have been signed for three more Lee Academy satellite schools in China, and plans are in the works for possibly five in South Korea, Headmaster Bruce Lindberg said Wednesday. He added that the ventures in Asia will help the academy fund a $2 million renovation of the local campus.
Lindberg signed agreements last month with Chinese authorities to create high school campuses in Shenzhen, a subtropical port city of 12 million in southern China just north of Hong Kong; Shijiazhuang, a northern city of 9 million southwest of Beijing; and Chengdu, a city of 11 million just south of the center of China. The schools will open in September 2009.
The private academy’s contract to create the first American high school on the Chinese mainland in Wuhan, a city of 9.1 million 500 miles north of Hong Kong and 600 miles south of Beijing, was signed in April. That school will open in February.
Symptomatic of China’s efforts to become an economic world power and Lee Academy’s desires to grow — at a time when most Maine public schools are shrinking in budget and population — the four schools are each expected to have populations of 400 to 600 Chinese students within three years, Lindberg said.
"They want to have American schools in their cities as an opportunity for their students," Lindberg said Wednesday of the Chinese officials with whom he has dealt.
"It’s not something that we even have to try to sell," Lindberg added. "We didn’t approach the Koreans. They approached us because they heard about what we intend to do in China."
No agreements have been signed with South Korean officials yet, but plans are advancing to develop schools in Seoul, Pusan, Kimpo, Kentek and Taegu, Lindberg said Wednesday. Some of those schools could open as soon as the fall of 2009, he said.
A private academy founded in 1845, Lee has contracts with local school boards to educate students from SAD 30, which serves Lee, Springfield, Webster and Winn. The school also serves students from Greenbush, Kingman, Topsfield, Vanceboro and the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine.
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By Nick Sambides Jr.
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
LEE, Maine - Agreements have been signed for three more Lee Academy satellite schools in China, and plans are in the works for possibly five in South Korea, Headmaster Bruce Lindberg said Wednesday. He added that the ventures in Asia will help the academy fund a $2 million renovation of the local campus.
Lindberg signed agreements last month with Chinese authorities to create high school campuses in Shenzhen, a subtropical port city of 12 million in southern China just north of Hong Kong; Shijiazhuang, a northern city of 9 million southwest of Beijing; and Chengdu, a city of 11 million just south of the center of China. The schools will open in September 2009.
The private academy’s contract to create the first American high school on the Chinese mainland in Wuhan, a city of 9.1 million 500 miles north of Hong Kong and 600 miles south of Beijing, was signed in April. That school will open in February.
Symptomatic of China’s efforts to become an economic world power and Lee Academy’s desires to grow — at a time when most Maine public schools are shrinking in budget and population — the four schools are each expected to have populations of 400 to 600 Chinese students within three years, Lindberg said.
"They want to have American schools in their cities as an opportunity for their students," Lindberg said Wednesday of the Chinese officials with whom he has dealt.
"It’s not something that we even have to try to sell," Lindberg added. "We didn’t approach the Koreans. They approached us because they heard about what we intend to do in China."
No agreements have been signed with South Korean officials yet, but plans are advancing to develop schools in Seoul, Pusan, Kimpo, Kentek and Taegu, Lindberg said Wednesday. Some of those schools could open as soon as the fall of 2009, he said.
A private academy founded in 1845, Lee has contracts with local school boards to educate students from SAD 30, which serves Lee, Springfield, Webster and Winn. The school also serves students from Greenbush, Kingman, Topsfield, Vanceboro and the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine.
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