Washington School District Says Asians Aren’t ‘Students of Color’, Now Counted With White Students

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A school district in Washington has sparked controversy after excluding Asians from a category that denoted “students of color” in a performance report. North Thurston Public Schools (NTPS) , which oversees 22 schools and some 16,000 students, instead lumped Asian and White students together, hoping that it would boost the growth rate of underperforming groups. “One of our district’s Strategic Plan goals is ‘Continuous Growth — All Students, All Subjects,'” NTPS officials said in a statement . “One of the outcomes we are working towards in this goal is to have an ‘increased growth rate of underperforming groups eliminating achievement...