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BRIGHTON PARK — In Room 222 at Calmeca Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood, students in a world language class on Thursday morning were learning Mandarin.

Some raised their hands when their teacher asked in Mandarin if they were stressed as several Chicago Public Schools officials and journalists observed their lesson, drawing a laugh.

In other Calmeca classrooms, kids were learning different subjects in both Spanish and English as part of the school’s dual language program.

On Thursday, CPS officials visited Calmeca — where 97 percent of students are Hispanic — to show off what different language pro

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