A beloved figure in Alamo City, Joe Bernal is best known for championing early bilingual education laws. He was 97.
Joe J. Bernal , a beloved political and educational figure in San Antonio best known for championing the state’s earliest bilingual education laws, died Saturday at 97. He was at home in San Antonio , surrounded by his family, and wearing his Bernal Middle School “ Black Knights ” shirt, relatives said.Bernal's family was already in mourning as his death came just one day after his granddaughter Bianca Ambriz died of cancer.
He served in the Texas House of Representatives in the mid-1960s, the Texas Senate until the early ‘70s, and the Texas State Board of Education for 10 years beginning in 1996. In 2014, the Northside Independent School District opened Bernal Middle School in his honor. Along with the late Texas lawmaker Carlos Truan of Corpus Christi, Bernal helped shepherd major bilingual education laws, championing a bill that created early free kindergarten programs for the state’s 5-year-olds.
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