In the recent white paper “Pathways to Progress: Supporting Multilingual Learners with Disabilities”, PCG’s Jacob Klett highlights strategies for equitable education for multilingual learners. Multilingual learners, students whose home language is not English, are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. public school population, totaling 5.6 million as of 2021. These students face unique challenges, requiring schools to meet their diverse needs.

Public Consulting Group (PCG) is proud to share its latest guidance on best practice for collecting and reporting data related to race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. By summarizing findings from leading industry sources, this report aims to move evaluators toward more culturally and linguistically appropriate standards (CLAS) for data collection and reporting by establishing guidelines for the work we do for our clients and the people we receive information from.