The North Thurston Public School district in Washington State has evidently decided that Asians no longer qualify as persons of color because they inconveniently do not chronically under-perform academically the way Blacks and Hispanics do: In their latest equity report, administrators at North Thurston Public Schoolswhich oversees some 16,000 studentslumped Asians in with whites and measured their academic achievements against students of color, a category that includes Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Multi-Racial Students who have experienced persistent opportunity gaps.
Most indicators in the report show that the achievement gap between white/Asian students and students of color is fairly narrow and improving over time. It would probably be even narrower if Asian students were categorized as students of color.