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The credential is designed to prepare educators to serve students who are both emergent bilingual and receiving special education services.  \nAfter years of advocacy, advisory committee work and policy development, the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) in July adopted the rules for the certificate. Now that the state board has acted, the new certification exam should launch in September 2028.  \nEmergent bilingual students constituted 20% of public school students in Texas and 8% receive special education services (Latham Sikes & Villanueva, 2021). Emergent bilingual students with disabilities, sometimes called “dually identified students,” represent tens of thousands of children in Texas schools. Yet, until now, Texas has had no certification ensuring that teachers were fully prepared to serve them.  \nOften, these students are misidentified or denied access to appropriate services entirely. The new certificate seeks to correct this by preparing teachers to do the following.  \n• Integrate bilingual education and special education pedagogies;  \n• Apply evidence-based practices from both fields;  \n• Recognize students’ cultural and linguistic strengths as assets;  \n• Support collaborative, informed decisionmaking for referrals and placements; and  \n• Advocate for students and help build schoolwide capacity.  \nBuilding the Standards  \nWhen the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 2256 in 2021, it required the development of statewide standards for this new credential. The measure was born from the Texas Early Childhood English Learner Initiative, with IDRA serving as a steering committee co-leader with Texans Care for Children, Philanthropy Advocates, Dr. Dina Castro, UNT Denton, and the Texas Association for the Education of Young Children (TxAEYC).  \nAfter the bill’s passage, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) formed a statewide advisory committee, comprised of educators, researchers and advocates. TEA appointed me to represent IDRA on the committee.  \nOver the course of two years, we drafted and refined standards through working sessions, subgroup analyses and statewide roundtables. I co-presented the committee’s expert recommendations to SBEC in 2023, stressing the importance of equipping teachers with the tools (cont. on Page 2)  \nTexas’ adoption of the bilingual special education teacher certificate recognizes that emergent bilingual students with disabilities have unique needs.  \nSeptember 2025 id ra newsletter 1  \nFocus: Honoring Latino Heritage    \n(Breakthrough for Students, continued from Page 1)  \nto view language and disability through an asset-based lens.  \nAligning Standards with Assessment  \nIn August, TEA and Pearson, an educational publisher, hosted a statewide framework review conference for the bilingual special education content advisory committee. I participated alongside educators to review the draft exam frameworks.  \nOur role was to ensure the frameworks reflect the breadth and depth of the certification standards. It was vital that they accurately capture the knowledge and skills educators must demonstrate and provide a fair, valid measure for teacher candidates across Texas.  \nThis step translates broad standards into concrete exam expectations. For example, a future certification exam item might ask teachers to analyze how to su","cbCaignOtsSDLEwo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaignOtsSDLEwo","pdf",4650451,"English","# Breakthrough for Students\n## Texas State Board approves standards for a new bilingual special education teacher certificate\n# Focus: Honoring Latino Welcoming Immigrant Students in School\n# Heritage\n## Celebrating Aurelio Montemayor’s 50 Years with IDRA","[{\"question\":\"What did the Texas State Board of Education approve in September 2025?\",\"answer\":\"It approved the standards for a new bilingual special education teacher certificate, designed to prepare teachers to serve emergent bilingual students who receive special education services.\"},{\"question\":\"When will the new certification exam launch?\",\"answer\":\"The newsletter states the certification exam should launch in September 2028 after the State Board adopted the rules in July.\"},{\"question\":\"How will the certificate change support for dually identified students and their families?\",\"answer\":\"The article explains it aims to ensure these students are not overlooked or misidentified, and that families can expect teachers specifically prepared to integrate disability support with bilingual instruction, improving academic, social, and emotional outcomes.\"}]","IDRA Newsletter - September 2025 - Volume LII, No. 8 | PDF",1792053836]