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Connecticut magnet school strikes agreement with China

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — An arts-focused magnet school in New Haven has struck an agreement for an exchange program described as the first formal partnership between an American public school and Chinese education officials. The agreement will bring top arts students from China to the Educational Center for the Arts and give the school’s students opportunities to connect with a range of schools in China, according to the school’s director, Jason Hiruo.

“For the enrolment at ECA, based on this partnership, the level of students in arts that would be coming to us from China would be the best of the best,” Hiruo said.

The school, which offers intensive arts instruction to students from 27 nearby Connecticut school districts, is expecting about five students from China in the first class to enrol for up to a full academic year. They will pay around $40,000 in tuition.

The Associated Press