D.C. charter schools are set to offer students language immersion from prekindergarten through graduation for the first time, as four schools join forces to create an international secondary school.

Advocates of the District of Columbia International School say it would assuage the anxieties of parents who are interested in multilanguage charter schools for their children but wary of where their students will end up when they age out of charter elementary or middle schools with no guaranteed next step.

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