Video & Transcript Research : 'biliteracy'
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TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Apr 3rd, 2025
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill creates the Texas State Seal of Bilingualism and Biliteracy.
- The existing performance acknowledgment for bilingualism and biliteracy falls short as it excludes our
- ISD, and Dallas ISD, just to name a few, offer a local seal of biliteracy to recognize their students
- So, on behalf of TAVE, I urge you to support the Texas Seal of Bilingualism and Biliteracy.
- In dual-language programming, that biliteracy and bilingual instruction starts from kindergarten, and
Keywords:
bullying, antisemitism, school policies, school discipline, education, education policy, Texas Education Code, hate speech, student rights, civics education, high school curriculum, government, voting process, elected officials, Texas Seal of Biliteracy, biliteracy, bilingual education, multilingual, language proficiency, high school diploma
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- current emergent bilingual students and is not recognized. as an official Seal of Biliteracy.
- In this case, we're calling it the Texas Seal of Biliteracy.
- A state-recognized Seal of Biliteracy would ensure that all students have this recognition.
- I urge you to support the Texas Seal of Biliteracy. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Puente.
- One of the reasons is, when we talk about the Seal of Biliteracy, biliteracy is in some form or fashion
Keywords:
tuition exemption, paramedics, higher education, public institutions, laboratory fees, education code, financial aid, education, student support, scholarships, nontraditional education, student enrollment, financial assistance, Texas students, foreign adversaries, trade secrets, research integrity, security measures, international agreements, student privacy
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 19th, 2026 at 08:53 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The House Education Committee inserted biliteracy for English language learners and students in bilingual
- The body of the bill to ensure that we were also looking at biliteracy programs.
Keywords:
SB273, appropriations, general fund, hold harmless, local government finance, municipal revenue, county revenue, correctional facility, jail contract, private prison, detention facility, immigration detention, revenue bonds, clawback, child welfare, juvenile justice, protective services, school improvement, New MexiCare, aging services
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 27th, 2026 at 04:11 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
high-quality literacy instruction, science of reading, structured literacy, reading instruction, literacy assessment, dyslexia screening, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, biliteracy, English language learner, ELL, bilingual education, dual language program, reading intervention, reading difficulty, reading improvement plan, literacy coach
NM
Keywords:
high-quality literacy instruction, science of reading, structured literacy, reading instruction, literacy assessment, dyslexia screening, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, biliteracy, English language learner, ELL, bilingual education, dual language program, reading intervention, reading difficulty, reading improvement plan, literacy coach
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- behind Senate Bill 37 and want to reiterate that we fully believe that structured literacy and biliteracy
Keywords:
SB29, math requirements for teaching license, teacher licensure, teacher endorsement, mathematics methods, elementary education, secondary education, special education, early childhood education, reciprocity, Public Education Department, Mathematics and Science Education Act, mathematics instructional leadership framework, professional learning plan, K-3 screening, mathematics screening assessment, mathematics difficulty, support plan, multilevel support, intervention
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Feb 7th, 2026 at 10:15 am
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- I am here because SB 37. and a member of the New Mexico Biliteracy Panel.
- I'm a scholar of biliteracy and bilingual education and a member of the New Mexico Biliteracy Panel.
- Biliteracy instruction strengthens foundational literacy skills while sustaining bilingualism, biliteracy
- I'm a scholar of biliteracy and bilingual education and a member of the New Mexico Biliteracy Panel.
- Biliteracy instruction strengthens foundational literacy skills while sustaining bilingualism, biliteracy
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- On page nine, line 11, after literacy, insert: and biliteracy development in English, and on page 10,
- It does not ask us to choose between literacy and biliteracy. Thank you. Carla, please.
- It affirms that structured literacy supports biliteracy and dual language programs.
- DRNM strongly supports SB 37 as amended to address biliteracy concerns, and thanks the sponsors.
- And I'm wondering, how can we, because we do have this focus on biliteracy and bilingual...
Keywords:
foster children, school transportation, education funding, public education, child welfare, New Mexico Highlands University, soccer field, women's sports, infrastructure improvement, funding allocation, student athletes, appropriation, New Mexico State University, nutrition, travel support, funding, education, university support, financial assistance, parenting students
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Education Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Next is H. 629, an act expanding student access to the State Seal of Biliteracy.
- One is the community outreach in regards to Seal of Biliteracy.
- Biliteracy of Intermediate High, you put those documents together.
- I’m testifying in support of Bill H. 629 about the Seal of Biliteracy.
- and one for the Seal of Biliteracy with distinction.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Education held a very full public hearing on the first Education Committee hearing of the session, with testimony taken on a large slate of bills, especially H. 650/S. 436 and related measures. The chairs explained the hearing rules, including two-minute testimony limits, live streaming, written testimony, and accommodations for interpreters and disabilities. The committee first heard extensive testimony on H. 460/S. 436 and later H. 650/S. 436, bills to affirm and maintain equal access to public education for all children, including immigrant students, English learners, and students with disabilities. Witnesses included parents, advocates, educators, attorneys, and state officials, many of whom described fears caused by federal policy changes and argued that Massachusetts should codify protections for school enrollment, special education, interpreter services, and due process in discipline cases. The Attorney General’s office, Mass Advocates for Children, Lawyers for Civil Rights, MIRA, the Children’s Law Center, the Disability Law/advocacy community, and others all urged favorable action, while committee members asked questions about Plyler v. Doe, manifestation determinations, interpreter qualifications, and how the bill would mirror or preserve existing federal protections at the state level.
The committee also heard testimony on H. 702/S. 460, establishing an elementary and secondary school robotics grant program, which was supported as a way to expand STEM opportunities and help schools fund robotics programs. Representative Sweeney also testified on H. 713, a bill to support student participation in 4-H programming by allowing excused absences similar to those for athletics and other sanctioned activities; members noted bipartisan support and the bill’s long history. The hearing then moved to H. 543/S. 417, a recess bill requiring at least 30 minutes of free-play recess for K-8 students. Supporters included the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the League of Women Voters, educators, and parents, who emphasized recess as important for physical health, social-emotional development, attention, and academic performance, and noted that unequal local policies create disparities across districts. Several witnesses also tied recess to broader concerns about student well-being and screen time. No votes were taken during the hearing; the committee simply received testimony and closed testimony on the bills as it moved through the agenda.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Nov 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- How effective these programs are in advancing bilingualism, biliteracy, cultural identity, and academic
- About, you know, biliteracy.
- The LFC report from September of 2023 highlights the importance of biliteracy.
- With state literacy initiative, again, as I mentioned, making sure that biliteracy is valued, and the
- Is it because they're intentional about language acquisition and bilingualism and biliteracy?
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Formal House Session 100 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So it's a little ironic that I would be standing here before you talking about the seal of biliteracy
- Many of those kids in our districts go on to pursue the seal of biliteracy, which you may remember has
- to Framingham High School, but instead went to a private school, wasn't eligible for the seal of biliteracy
- on to Framium High School, but instead went to a private school, wasn't eligible for the seal of biliteracy
- Was he fluent, Wasn't eligible for the seal of biliteracy. Was he fluent in English?
Summary:
The House took up several procedural orders early in the session, including extending the reporting deadline for the Housing Committee on H.4655 and suspending Joint Rule 12 for a petition seeking to rescind prior Article 5 constitutional convention applications. It then advanced three Ways and Means bills on education-related topics: personal financial literacy education (H.4670), expanded access to the state seal of biliteracy (H.4671), and teacher preparation and student literacy (H.4672), each moving through amendment adoption and third reading or engrossment procedures.
A major portion of the meeting focused on H.4670, which would require personal financial literacy instruction in middle and high school and establish a financial literacy trust fund for curriculum and teacher training. Members spoke in support, emphasizing budgeting, credit, student loans, and long-term financial planning, and the bill passed to be engrossed by a 154-0 roll call. H.4671, which broadens access to the seal of biliteracy for students in public and private schools, also drew support and passed to be engrossed 155-0.
The most extensive debate centered on H.4672, a literacy bill requiring evidence-based reading instruction, DESE-approved curricula or approved local alternatives, screening and progress monitoring, professional development, and related implementation measures. Members described concerns about declining reading scores and argued for a shift away from three-cueing toward phonics-based, science-of-reading approaches. Several amendments were considered: a proposal to change intervention language from “significantly” to “at risk of falling behind” failed, while amendments adding funding language, stakeholder collaboration, and other implementation details were adopted. One amendment clarifying that pictures may be used as a supplement in literacy curricula was also adopted, and the bill ultimately passed to be engrossed 155-0. The House also observed moments of silence for former Judge Leslie Harris, former Representative Mark Carron, and former Representative Dennis Rosa, and adjourned to meet the next day at 11 a.m.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Second Regular Session of the 60th Legislature Day 40 Morning Session Apr 14th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Oklahoma House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, today we are celebrating our first annual Oklahoma Seal of Biliteracy Day at the Capitol.
- And so we have a citation that I would like to read about biliteracy.
- And so we have a citation that I would like to read about biliteracy.
- So I'll read the citation: the Oklahoma Seal of Biliteracy, whereas since 2022, the State of Oklahoma
- And whereas biliteracy embodies a culture... ...our state's economic development, and whereas biliteracy
Bills:
SB1290, SB1530, SB1847, HR1050, SB169, SB1377, SB1990, SB1991, SB1778, SB1579, SB1992, SB3, SB2028, SB1928, SB2127, SB2117, SB1439, SB1930, SB330, SB1191, SB2110, SB2134, SB2069, SB2095, SB1613, SB1246, SB1976, SB1346, SB1509, SB2071, SB259, SB1314
Keywords:
2-1-1 services, revolving fund, Department of Human Services, crisis pregnancy, abortion, legal funding, research funding, development rebate, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, tax incentives, higher education partnerships, Medicaid, ADvantage Waiver, home-based services, eligibility criteria, healthcare, senior services, Taiwan, Oklahoma, sister-state relationship
PA
Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Jun 22 2026)
Pennsylvania Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm happy to have this opportunity to share with everyone how and when the seal of biliteracy started
- They educated me about the existence of a seal of biliteracy in other states and asked for my help in
- Secretary of Education Noe Ortega, and soon after PDE administratively created the Pennsylvania seal of biliteracy
- Soon after, PDE administratively created the Pennsylvania seal of biliteracy.
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer by Senator Anthony H. Williams and the Pledge of Allegiance, then received gubernatorial communications and a long list of newly referred Senate and House bills and resolutions. The chamber approved the April 22, 2026 journal by a 49-0 vote. Senators also introduced guests, including a high school senior advisory council visiting with Senator Malone and a young guest welcomed by Senator Costa.
On the floor, several bills were taken up and either set aside or advanced. Senate Bill 1377 and Senate Bill 482 were re-referred to Appropriations, Senate Bill 906 was re-referred to Rules and Executive Nominations, and Senate Bills 1133, 1334, and 1368 were also sent to Appropriations. Senator Dush requested a conflict-of-interest ruling on an amendment to Senate Bill 469; the chair ruled no conflict existed and required him to vote, and the amendment was adopted. The Senate also took Senate Bill 127 from the table and placed it on the calendar.
The Senate then considered Supplemental Calendar Number One. Senate Bill 362 received a technical amendment and was advanced; Senate Bill 1183 passed 50-0; Senate Bill 1352, which would allow qualifying substance use disorder treatment providers to receive two-year licenses, passed 45-5 after supportive remarks from Senators Brooks, Tartaglione, and Street; and House Bill 1877, codifying the Pennsylvania seal of biliteracy, passed 50-0 after Senator Lindsey Williams described its student-led origins. The session ended with committee announcements for the next day and Senator Tartaglione’s petition urging a floor vote on the House-passed minimum wage bill, House Bill 2189.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Sep 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Act, which was passed in 1873, ensures equitable access to education by promoting bilingualism, biliteracy
- Creating rigorous culturally affirming biliteracy pathways aligned with statewide literacy reforms, and
- In summary, both counts play vital roles in advancing equity, biliteracy, family engagement, and culturally
- As you can see, we strengthen educational programs for students, focusing on bilingualism, biliteracy
- And what measures are used to assess success in biliteracy?
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Apr 30th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- redouble our efforts in providing professional learning and technical assistance with the focus on biliteracy
- students are working through their own proficiency process to earn a state seal of bilingual and biliteracy
- And I'm trying to find where biliteracy, bilingual, multicultural education is included on this report
- But bilingual and biliteracy continue to be a focus of PED, both in the language and culture division
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Nov 20th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- things are really what we envision as part of the centers that, in my mind, will really celebrate biliteracy
- Is this literary center also to be used for biliteracy. Mr.
- It will be important to have and demonstrate that both biliteracy has the same value on English programs
- coming out from the program are sometimes not as prepared, especially in the areas of math and biliteracy
- at groups in order to start getting a pool of people for the RFPs or considering an RFP that the biliteracy
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Dec 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Some of the language that you’re going to see repeated throughout the bill is this inclusion of biliteracy
- So include evidence-based practices for biliteracy, such as bilingual and dual-language instructional
- students with a reading difficulty and how to use evidence-based practice for English learners, biliteracy
- learner, the importance of developing the student's home language in English to support the student's biliteracy
- It's much, much more sensitive about English and biliteracy. So I salute that.
Summary:
The committee first heard a detailed staff presentation on the LESC FY27 public school support recommendation. Staff reviewed the budget structure and explained that, despite a downward revision in state revenue estimates, the recommendation still relied on recurring and non-recurring revenue to support educator compensation, insurance, transportation, literacy, math, special education, and other school programs. Major recurring items included a 3% compensation increase, funding for an 80-20 health insurance cost share, insurance premium growth, and transportation adequacy funding. Staff also flagged a possible supplemental need of up to $35 million for virtual education tied to rapid enrollment growth in Chama and Santa Rosa, and members raised concerns about the quality, accountability, and funding model for virtual programs.
Members asked questions about transportation for rural districts, the Martinez-Yazzie lawsuit fees, the treatment of enrollment declines in the school funding formula, and whether the word “average” in salary language should remain in the budget. Staff explained that the SEG should remain whole, that the insurance and transportation recommendations applied to all public school employees but not contractors, and that the budget included multiple math-related investments spread across several lines rather than one single appropriation. There was also discussion of out-of-school learning grants, school meals, literacy center operations, special education training, and the Public Education Reform Fund, including the use of multi-year, evaluation-based appropriations for high-impact tutoring and community schools. After discussion, the committee adopted the LESC budget recommendation.
The committee then moved to endorsed legislation proposals. It endorsed a bill allowing the secretary to suspend an individual school board member, with notice and appeal procedures clarified, and a bill creating an 80-20 health insurance cost-share requirement for public school employees, along with a study of the sustainability of public school insurance programs. It also endorsed a bill on attendance provisions for students with severe medical conditions, which would keep those students from being classified as excessively absent. Finally, the committee discussed a teacher residency bill that would raise stipend levels, allow residents to complete service anywhere in New Mexico, and remove the requirement that sponsoring schools must hire them, though the bill did not include an appropriation. Members also raised questions about bilingual, Hispanic, and Black education funding, cultural and linguistic supports in teacher preparation, and where various programs should be placed in the budget or PERF framework.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Dec 19th, 2025 at 09:11 am
Transcript Highlights:
- Bidirectionally, this will increase the number of Native American students that graduate with a bilingual and biliteracy
- while I was there, San Felipe assessed and provided the certificate to their first 520 bilingual biliteracy
- Because I know, as an English language endorsed teacher who's worked with biliteracy and bilingual education
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Dec 18th, 2025 at 01:07 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- Some of the language you're going to see repeated throughout the bill is the inclusion of biliteracy.
- So include evidence-based practices for biliteracy, such as bilingual.
- students with a reading difficulty and how to use evidence-based practice for English learners, biliteracy
- designated school with a significant English language learner enrollment, training, and experience in biliteracy
- It's much, much, more sensitive about English and biliteracy. So I salute that.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- 1579 by Representative Guerra, relating to establishing the Texas state seal of bilingualism and biliteracy
- This bill creates the Texas state seal of bilingualism and biliteracy.
Bills:
HB178