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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2255)	12/26/2003 9:58:55 AM
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China allows foreign-run school as classroom demands grow Communists seeing value of competitive private education Kathleen McLaughlin, Chronicle Foreign Service Friday, December 26, 2003 Shanghai - -- Just a few years ago, the thought of Chinese and foreign students studying together in a Western-run school inside China with the blessing of the Communist Party was a far-fetched -- and illegal -- notion. The Communists banned foreign missionary schools shortly after taking power in 1949 and have barred Chinese students from studying with Westerners ever since. But foreign-run schools for Chinese students are once again a reality in this vast port city of more than 20 million inhabitants. In September, the government permitted U.S. educators and a prestigious British preparatory school -- London's Dulwich College -- to operate a school for kindergarten and high school students. It is the nation's first Western-run school to admit Chinese students. A ban on foreign-run elementary and middle schools remains in force. "We are the beginning of competitive private education in China," said Fritz Libby, a Walnut Creek native whose Global Education Information Consulting Co. helped negotiate and finance the school, known as Shanghai Dulwich International School. ... bayarea.com