Houston Chronicle calls on Texas to expand racial categories for students

08.23.06 - Posted by AsiansVote

Thumbs up to the Houston Chronicle for calling on Texas to include more ethnic categories for tracking its public school students. A few excerpts from the editorial:

For the purpose of determining "adequate yearly progress," Texas crams all students into three racial/ethnic groups: white, black or Hispanic. The state doesn't count Asian, American Indian or mulitracial schoolchildren. Arkansas is the only other state that tracks so few categories.
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"No Child Left Behind" implies that every student is important in public education. But that can't be true if Texas lets educators disregard all those students who belong to small minority groups within a school.

Texas residents, feel free to contact your legislators and let them know you support this editorial.

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08.23.06 | Education , Issues