All Students Count Act of 2026
States and public schools will be required to break down K-12 educational data—such as graduation rates and test scores—by specific ethnic subgroups rather than using broad, lumped-together categories for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students. This change will make achievements and struggles within distinct communities, such as Cambodian or Chamorro students, much more visible. With this detailed information, local schools and policymakers can better target funding and academic support to the specific student groups that need it most.
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Introduced in Senate
The provisions, in plain language.
Requires states to report public school assessment results broken down by specific ethnic subgroups rather than only broad categories, starting 18 months after enactment.
Requires state school accountability and performance systems to use these same detailed ethnic subgroups when evaluating schools, starting 18 months after enactment.
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Detailed AANHPI ethnic communitiesAsian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander ethnic subgroups gain visibility, because states must report and act on school data broken out by their specific ethnicity rather than a lumped category.
- Public school students in undercounted subgroupsStudents whose educational needs were hidden inside broad racial categories gain a chance at targeted support, since accountability systems must evaluate schools using the detailed subgroups.
Who it burdens
- State education agenciesState education agencies take on a new duty to collect, disaggregate, and report assessment and accountability data by detailed ethnic subgroups within 18 months of enactment.
- Local school districtsLocal districts must gather and submit more granular ethnicity data to feed the states' expanded reporting requirement.