Advancing Justice | AAJC Supports Updated Standards for Collecting and Reporting Info on Student Race and Ethnicity

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC (Advancing Justice – AAJC) appreciates the opportunity to comment in response to the notice published in the federal register on October 10, 2024 regarding the collection, use, and reporting of education data. Data reported in the Civil Rights Data Collection help us to understand students’ experiences in schools and whether all students, including students of color, English learners, and students with disabilities, have equal access to education, especially Asian American students. The Civil Rights Data Collection also sheds light on whether individual students or groups of students are experiencing discrimination and whether or not there is equal educational opportunity. Civil Rights Data Collection is important to our community to ensuring all Asian Americans have access to equal educational opportunities and must be collected in a comprehensive and timely fashion, as well as in a manner that disaggregates data for different Asian American subgroups.