A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require that annual State report cards reflect the same race groups as the decennial census of population.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 4579 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4579 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require that annual State report cards reflect the same race groups as the decennial census of population. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 20, 2026 Ms. Hirono (for herself, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Booker, Ms. Warren, Mr. Markey, Mr. Merkley, and Mr. Durbin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require that annual State report cards reflect the same race groups as the decennial census of population. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``All Students Count Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Asian Americans, as well as Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, are an incredibly diverse population. Due to this diversity, the United States Office of Management and Budget's Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 of 1997, entitled ``Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting'', separated the Asian and Pacific Islander category into two distinct and separate categories, now called ``Asians'' and ``Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders'', and these two distinct categories were used in the 2000 United States Census. As of 2022, the United States Census Bureau reports data for at least 27 different ethnicities within these two categories. (2) While Asian Americans, as well as Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, are often misrepresented as a homogeneo