Report on Seal of Biliteracy Pilot Project

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sobl-hs-2018The Language Opportunity Coalition published a report on the third and final year of the Massachusetts Seal of Biliteracy Pilot Project. The pilot ended in June 2018 with approval of the official State Seal of Biliteracy, with implementation beginning in the 2018-19 school year.*

  • 26 school districts made 1,339 awards in 2018.
  • Languages included Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hebrew, Mandarin, French, Arabic, Marathi, Urdu, Haitian Creole, Polish, Latin, German, Italian, Tagalog, Urdu, Cantonese, Korean, Bengali, Arabic, Hausa, Thai, Russian, ASL, Hungarian, Dutch, and Luganda.

View the report…

* We are awaiting the Commissioner’s decision on key aspects of the state award, as well as release of the guidance document by DESE.