Students call for disaggregated disability data on California School Dashboard
Jan 20, 2026
Student presenters urged the Legislature to require the California Department of Education to add disaggregated indicators for 13 IDEA disability categories to the state dashboard so educators and policymakers can target supports; lawmakers praised transparency but warned about dashboard usability and readability.
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Students argued that current disability reporting is too coarse to guide targeted interventions and proposed a new dashboard subset that disaggregates outcomes by the 13 disability categories recognized under IDEA.
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