The Austin Bilingüe project was featured in the May 2008 edition of the McCombs Monthly, an email news publication for MBA Alumni from The University of Texas McCombs School of Business. The story is shown verbatim below (note: the school is not actually open YET but it is nice that they stated it as a fait accompli!
Erin Defosse, MBA ’98, Opens Austin Bilingual School
Erin Defosse is the founder of non-profit organization Austin Bilingüe, whose primary objective is to launch a private, dual language immersion school in Austin. Children attending the school will become fully fluent (writing, reading, speaking) in English and Spanish. The school will eventually add additional languages, and students will engage in a globally oriented curriculum. “I decided to establish this school because I wanted my kids to have the type of education I grew up with,” said Defosse, who is bilingual and attended the American School in Mexico City as a child. He plans to open Austin Bilingüe in the fall of 2009, with a K-2 offering that will expand year by year.
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