Why is there no “Declined to State” option for the ethnicity question?
Federal guidelines require that the race and ethnicity for all students are identified. The most accurate information is obtained at the local level and efforts should be made to obtain the information from the families of students. The CDE will implement a default designation in federal reports that will be applied to records without valid race designations. To prevent such default designations, LEAs may want to re-survey students for whom the data are missing.
