State‐issued seals and certificates of biliteracy are increasingly common nationwide. Nevertheless, limited research to date has examined how this state legislation functions as language in education policy and the ideological foundations of these policies. Addressing this gap, the present paper examines state seals as an instance of neoliberal language education policy and addresses how the policy has been constructed in public discourse and interview narratives and how it has been implemented to date. Focusing on one state, Minnesota, we demonstrate the neoliberal logic that undergirds state seals of biliteracy. Data revealed uneven availability of assessments and access to seals across the state. Access was largely determined by market‐oriented, rational choice ideologies, and dependent upon the language and district in question. Analysis also suggested that while Minnesota seals have been constructed in public discourse as a financial asset, their value is unclear in a potentially inflated marketplace of academic credentials within the state.

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双语国家印章的新自由主义逻辑

国家颁发的印章和双语证书在全国范围内越来越普遍。然而，迄今为止，有限的研究考察了该州立法如何作为教育政策的语言以及这些政策的意识形态基础。为了解决这一差距，本文将国家印章作为新自由主义语言教育政策的一个实例进行研究，并讨论了该政策是如何在公共话语和采访叙述中构建的，以及迄今为止它是如何实施的。我们以明尼苏达州的一个州为重点，展示了巩固双语文化印记的新自由主义逻辑。数据显示，全州评估和获得海豹的机会不均衡。准入在很大程度上取决于市场导向的理性选择意识形态，并取决于所讨论的语言和地区。