The data was shared by school officials in a presentation on student well-being and safety during a June 27 Board of Education meeting. Eight of the students arrested during the 2022-2023 school year were Black, and five were white, according to county data. The data doesn’t cite what the students were arrested for.
Some school board members expressed frustration that Hispanic students weren’t included in the data...
Montgomery Co. reports uptick in students arrested on school grounds - WTOP News
https://www.carleton.edu/ira/fed-race-ethnic/ Federal Definitions for New Race and Ethnicity Categories:
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• American Indian or Alaska Native A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community attachment.
• Asian A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Black or African American A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
• White A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.