Comment on the Current Population Survey, School Enrollment Supplement
February 25, 2025The CPS is important to ensure all Asian Americans have access to equal educational opportunities and for the continued collection of disaggregated data.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC (Advancing Justice – AAJC) appreciates the opportunity to comment in response to the notice published in the Federal Register on December 26, 2024 regarding the continued collection of data concerning the School Enrollment Supplement to be conducted in conjunction with the October Current Population Survey (CPS). As the Federal Register notes, the survey “provides information on public/private elementary school/secondary school, and college enrollment, and on characteristics of private school students and their families, which is used for tracking historical trends, policy planning, and support.” We are especially interested in how the Asian American community is represented in this data. The CPS is important to our community to ensure all Asian Americans have access to equal educational opportunities and data must be collected in a comprehensive and timely fashion, as well as in a manner that disaggregates data for different Asian American subgroups.
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