BEST Act
Summary
Biliteracy Education Seal and Teaching Act or the BEST Act This bill directs the Department of Education to award renewable two-year grants to states to establish or improve, and carry out, Seal of Biliteracy programs to recognize student proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in both English and a second language. Further, these programs must allow speakers of any official Native American language to use equivalent proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in such language in lieu of proficiency in English.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Mar 10, 2021
Last action Mar 10, 2021
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Committee
1
Mar 10, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
lower
Mar 10, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 30 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Julia Brownley
DDemocratic
Co
Alan S. Lowenthal
DDemocratic
Co
Anna G. Eshoo
DDemocratic
Co
Carolyn Bourdeaux
DDemocratic
Co
Cynthia Axne
DDemocratic
Co
Darren Soto
DDemocratic
Co
David E. Price
DDemocratic
Co
Deborah K. Ross
DDemocratic
Co
Derek Kilmer
DDemocratic
Co
Dina Titus
DDemocratic
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
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