Equitable Learning Opportunities

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Final US Department of Education Guidance on
Maintaining, Collecting, and Reporting Racial and
Ethnic Data December 2007
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Background

• Guidance Released 10/19/2007
• 1997 Office of Management and Budget Revisions
  (10/30/1997)
• 2000 U.S. Census
• Last federal agency to implement

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Background

• Current Racial/Ethnic Categories
• American Indian/Alaska Native
• Asian or Pacific Islander
• Black, not of Hispanic origin
• Hispanic
• White, not of Hispanic origin
• An individual may only be reported in ONE
  category
• These categories will be in effect through the
  2009-10 school year

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Background

• We collect race/ethnicity on
• The Student Record Collection
• The SESIS
• STARS including Writing
• The Fall Personnel Collection
• Maybe more
• Many federal reporting requirements require us to
  disaggregate by race/ethnicity, including AYP

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The Guidance

• How educational institutions will collect and
  maintain racial and ethnic data from students and
  staff
• How educational institutions will aggregate
  racial and ethnic data when reporting to USED
• How data on multiple races will be reported and
  aggregated under NCLB
• The implementation schedule

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The Guidance

• For the first time, individuals may identify
  themselves as being of or belonging to more than
  one race
• 6.8 million people in 2000
• Self or Parent-identification encouraged
• Observer identification still an issue
• Re-identification strongly encouraged
• Required 2-part question
• Required for reporting of data on the 2010-11
  school year
• September, 2010 Fall Membership

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The 2-part Question

• Please answer both questions 1 and 2.
• Are you Hispanic or Latino? (choose only one)
• No, not Hispanic or Latino
• Yes, Hispanic or Latino
• What is your race? (choose one or more)
• American Indian or Alaska Native
• Asian
• Black or African American
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• White

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The Reporting Categories

• For reporting to USED, states and others will use
  these aggregate categories
• Hispanic/Latino of any race
• American Indian or Alaska Native
• Asian
• Black or African American
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• White
• Two or more races
• This is aligned with EEOC reporting of staff

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The Issues (some of them)

• Race Unknown not allowed for K-12
• Observer identification mandatory
• Who is the observer?
• Distance education issues
• Re-identification (strongly encouraged)
• Timing
• Burden on school districts
• NCLB
• Trend data required
• AYP categories will not necessarily change
• Information systems
• Major changes in data collections at NDE
• STARS, including Writing must be changed
• School district student information systems may
  require vendor changes for data entry and storage
• Must adopt standard set of codes to use statewide

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Bridging

• Bridging two or more races to a single race
• a prediction of how the responses would have
  been collected and coded under the 1977
  standards. (OMB)
• OMB has 4 major categories and 9 methodologies
  for bridging
• Deterministic Whole Assignment Smallest group
• Deterministic Whole Assignment Largest group
  other than White
• Deterministic Whole Assignment Largest group
• Deterministic Whole Assignment Plurality
• Probabilistic Equal Selection
• Probabilistic NHIS Fractions
• Deterministic Fractional Assignment Equal
  Fractions
• Deterministic Fractional Assignment NHIS
  Fractions
• All inclusive

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Implementation Schedule

• Data for the 2010-11 School Year
• Fall Student Record Collection (Fall Membership)
• Statewide Assessments
• December 1, 2010 Child Count
• 2010-11 Instructional Personnel
• 2010-11 Discipline, Crime, and Violence Report
• Impacts 2011 AYP
• Others