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Trump administration publishes latest CRDC six months late and withholds nonbinary student data
The release leaves out data on nonbinary students that schools were required to report, and it adds new figures on teachers, suspensions and course enrollment.
A late release with a gap
The Trump administration published the latest CRDC six months later than promised [1]. The release leaves out data on nonbinary students, which was collected under the Biden administration but withheld from the public version [1].
Under President Joe Biden, the CRDC required schools to report the experiences of nonbinary students for the first time [1]. The Trump administration cited an executive order calling for the federal government to recognize two sexes, male and female, as the reason for not releasing that data [1].
What the data shows about teachers
For the first time since the 1970s, the CRDC gathered information about teachers' race, ethnicity and sex [1]. More than 720,000 students attend schools where fewer than half of teachers met state certification requirements [1]. Black and Latino students make up 73% of those students [1].
Gopalan says research shows Black students have better achievement and discipline outcomes when taught by Black teachers [1].
Suspensions and their cost
Black students lost over four times as many days of school as white peers because of out-of-school suspension, according to Losen [1]. Losen's research indicates that most districts suspend students for what he calls minor offenses rather than unsafe behavior [1].
Losen says even one out-of-school suspension greatly increases the risk of dropping out of school or winding up in the juvenile justice system [1]. Students with disabilities were suspended out of school at disproportionately high rates [1].
Students with disabilities and course access
Boys make up nearly two-thirds of students with disabilities [1]. High school students with disabilities served under IDEA had lower enrollment rates than nondisabled peers in all listed STEM courses except Algebra I [2].
Students with disabilities are among the least likely groups to be enrolled in Advanced Placement classes, which Losen attributes partly to assumptions that they cannot achieve at high levels [1].
Computer science and preschool
Boys were almost twice as likely as girls to enroll in computer science, at 11% compared to 6% [2].
Preschool enrollment growth was partly recovery from a pandemic low and partly expansion driven by states investing more in early childhood education [1].
What it means for you
If you follow data on nonbinary students, the public release does not include it, because the Trump administration withheld it [1]. The administration cited an executive order on recognizing two sexes [1].
If you have a child in a school where fewer than half of teachers met state certification requirements, you are among a group in which Black and Latino students make up 73% [1]. If your child has a disability, the figures show lower STEM enrollment in all listed courses except Algebra I [2].
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