“Native Students Count!”: An update on AB 1581: data reporting on American Indian and Alaska Native pupils

By Tori McConnell In a recent hearing at the California Senate Standing Committee on Education, Chad Mays of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians testified that in data collected on student demographics there is a 70% undercounting of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students nationwide. Assembly Bill 1581 is seeking to change that in California. The…