An international affair: Maie Ellis hosts its first international festival

FALLBROOK − Maie Ellis Elementary celebrated the end of the first year of its dual immersion program with an all-day international festival on May 26.

The festivities were built around a visit from the dual program's sister school, Instituto Metropolitano Tijuana, which has been traveling from Tijuana to Fallbrook for the past five years to visit the students of the La Paloma Dual Immersion Program.

When the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District (FUESD) combined all the dual classes into one school at Maie Ellis this year, the sister school program followed thanks to the continued coordin...