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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2019/07/seal_of_biliteracy_california.html

Who's Earning the Seal of Biliteracy? In One State, It's Mostly English-Learners
by Corey Mitchell 
July 9, 2019

California's statewide push to honor students who master a second language is growing—and English-language learners are benefiting the most.

In the class of 2018, 63 percent of graduates who earned the "seal of biliteracy" spoke a language other than English when they began school, a new report from Californians Together, an English-learner research and advocacy group, found. Those youths, identified in the report as heritage-language students, include current English-learners, former English-learners reclassified as English proficient, and students identified as bilingual when they began school.

The seal of biliteracy is affixed to high school diplomas or transcripts as proof that graduates can communicate in more than one language. Its popularity has surged across the country as more states and school systems have placed an emphasis on honoring multilingual graduates and in helping more English-learners become proficient.

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