Un article publié sur le site du Daily News rend compte des effets de l'implantation d'une section bilingue à l'échelle locale : "The Brownstone Brooklyn neighborhood that was once an Italian stronghold is quickly becoming the city's Little Paris - fueled by a new French program at a local public school."

Extrait :

"The area's French floodgates opened in 2007, when Public School 58 - once so staunchly Italian it was known as "Our Lady of 58" - launched a French dual-language program. "We have people moving into the neighborhood just to be part of the French program," said PS58 Principal Giselle Gault McGee, adding that the school routinely gets inquiries from families in France. "Now that the school is offering a dual-language program in French, everybody's moving there," said Fabrice Jaumont, an education official at the French Embassy, which jointly opened the PS 58 program and others across the city.

A similar program at PS 125 in Harlem has attracted Senegalese and West African students. "There are little Francophone villages opening everywhere around those schools," Jaumont said."

Source : "Brooklyn's old Italian stronghold is becoming more and more French", Daily News, 09/03/09

Note de synthèse : Les programmes d'enseignement en français dans les écoles publiques de New-York