The United States Census, which is mandated by the U.S. Constitution, is intended to enumerate every person residing in the country regardless of citizenship status. The census has critical political implications for the state of California as it determines both our allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and the amount of federal funding school districts receive for education programs (including Title 1, school lunch, Head Start, and special education) and support services for our families (including WIC, Medicare, food stamps, foster care, Section 8 housing, child care, and highways funding).

Many families in the Alameda Unified School District live in traditionally undercounted Census tracts and are considered “Hard-To-Count,” because their households consist of low-income persons, children ages 0-5, immigrants, renters, people without stable housing, people with limited-English proficiency, people of color, and people with disabilities. With this resolution, AUSD expresses its commitment to helping to get every student and family counted in the 2020 census, by partnering with other organizations, providing census awareness materials in multiple languages, participation in the Alameda County Complete Count Committee.