‘Feels like erasure’: Why Native American students may be undercounted by 90% in California schools

‘Feels like erasure’: Why Native American students may be undercounted by 90% in California schools

In summary Native American students who also identify as another race, such as Black, white or Asian, are counted as “two or more races,” not Native American. When Celestina Castillo filled out the ethnicity forms at her children’s school, she’d always check Latino and Native American. After all, the family is proud of both its heritages.  But because of a loophole in the state’s data collection system, checking Latino or Hispanic meant that her…