Seattle creates international high school

From the Big Blog of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson on Thursday named Chief Sealth High School the district's first international high school.

Last year, Concord Elementary and Denny Middle schools, both in the same West Seattle attendance areas as Sealth, were named international schools. The addition of Sealth means that West Seattle students can attend international schools through the grades.

International schools provide immersion in foreign languages. The district says they also integrate "global perspectives into daily learning, with an emphasis on multicultural literature, world economics, global health and arts, music, dance and drama from around the world.
"Students will also learn about a variety of cultures and countries using an international social studies curriculum that explores current challenges and issues facing the world community. The mission of the international education program is to educate and prepare all students with the cultural competence and skills to achieve in a global community and economy."

-----
My idea of about 6-7 years ago, of creating an arts cluster of schools in the H Street neighborhood of NE DC had an element of this. One of the "arts" emphases was to be international language and culture--along with English language as well as media--so that each of the elementary schools in the cluster would focus on a different language, as well as programs in the visual and performingarts.