Laws

Maryland is without a Law but with Relevant/Related Laws, Bills, or Advocacy Activities

State law requires the Montgomery County Board of Education to adopt a data disaggregation policy for data collection, reports, or internal documents that include a category for each racial and ethnic group that constitutes at least 5 percent of the students enrolled in the Montgomery County public school system. MD Educ 4-141. This law only applies to the Montgomery County Board of Education and is not explicit in the types of racial and ethnic categories that need to be disaggregated (Montgomery County borders Baltimore).

Another state law relates to monitoring progress on the “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.” The law requires the state Board of Education to gather and analyze data disaggregated by race and ethnicity; however, the law does not specify the racial or ethnic categories. MD Educ 5-408

Bills

No recent bills were found requiring data disaggregation based on race or ethnicity.

This news article includes an interview with a state senator saying that no bills related to data disaggregation for the Asian Pacific Islander community are planned at this time (2021).