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Will your schools be working to maximize participation in the 2010 census?
That’s not, of course, the job of local school boards and senior school administrators. The U.S. Census Bureau is responsible for conducting the constitutionally mandated, once-a-decade tally of American residents.
Yet, given the results will influence the distribution of $4 trillion in federal funds over the next decade, local school officials have a vested interested in seeing accurate census results.
That’s why the Census Bureau launched its Census in Schools project, which encourages educators to use their schools’ communications pipeline to students’ homes to “get the word out” about the importance of the census in ensuring schools get their fair share of federal dollars.
Census officials are particularly hopeful that schools—and children newly educated about the census—can reach out to poor, minority, and non-English-speaking families, who traditionally have been undercounted in past censuses.
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