1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Literacy Improvement for Transformation Act of 2024 . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) ESEA Terms The terms elementary school , English learner , institution of higher education , local educational agency , multi-tier system of supports , secondary school , and State educational agency have the meanings given those terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 ). (2) IDEA Terms The terms child with a disability , individualized education program or IEP , special education , and specific learning disability have the meanings given those terms in section 602 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( 20 U.S.C. 1401 ). (3) Bilingual The term bilingual means a program that makes instructional use of both English and a child’s native language. (4) Biliteracy The term biliteracy means the ability to read and write with high levels of proficiency in 2 languages through the appropriate and effective use of grammatical, syntactic, graphophonic, semantic, and pragmatic systems of the 2 languages. (5) Eligible entity The term eligible entity means— (A) a local educational agency; (B) a partnership between a State educational agency and one or more local educational agencies in the State, entered into for the purposes of a grant under this section; (C) a nonprofit entity with expertise in reading intervention or specific learning disabilities, in partnership with a State educational agency or one or more local educational agencies; (D) a school operated by the Bureau of Indian Education or operated by an Indian tribe, or an organization controlled or sanctioned by an Indian tribal government, for the children of that tribe under a contract with, or grant from, the Department of the Interior under the Indian Self-Determination Act ( 25 U.S.C. 5321 et seq. ) or the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 ( 25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq. )