The All Students Count Act of 2026 requires states to break down student performance data by specific ethnic subgroups when reporting educational outcomes, rather than using broad racial categories. Currently, federal education law groups all Asian Americans together and all Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders together in state report cards, but this bill would require states to separately report data for groups like Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Samoan, Chamorro, and Tongan students, among others. The bill's sponsors argue this detailed data collection is necessary because these communities have distinct educational experiences and challenges that get hidden when they are lumped into larger categories, pointing to examples like low college completion rates among Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander students. The law would take effect 18 months after passage and applies to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's annual state report card requirements. There is no specific funding amount allocated in the legislation for implementing these new data collection and reporting requirements.
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