Maine school eyeing expansion
Lee Academy plans to open a satellite school in Wuhan, China, a city of 9.1 million people, to help the Penobscot County institution survive as the rural school-aged population here dwindles.
Starting in September, as many as 1,000 Chinese students would be taught an American curriculum at Wuhan Lee Academy and six Wuhan students would be tuition students at Lee, Headmaster Bruce Lindberg told the Bangor Daily News. School officials in Wuhan must officially approve the plan.
Eventually, the school's staff and student population of 275 in Lee could increase by a third and the new partnership could generate $300,000 to $500,000 annually for Lee Academy, Lindberg told the paper.
The academy would be the first American high school on the Chinese mainland, according to the paper.
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