Giving Compass' Take:

• Carolyn Phenicie reports that education advocates warn that the census citizenship question will force an undercount of students, reducing federal funding for education. 

• How can funders best work to ensure an accurate count on the 2020 census? 

• Learn more about the importance of the 2020 census. 

Trump proposal to add a citizenship question to the U.S. census could strip critical funding from school districts that educate large numbers of Hispanic and immigrant students, education groups have warned ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on the issue expected as early as Monday.

One major education organization predicted that undercounting 5.8 percent of Hispanic and non-citizen residents in New York City alone could cost schools there $10 million in Title I funds every year.

“An undercount resulting from the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census would lead to the schools most in need of more resources to educate vulnerable populations receiving less,” several education groups said in a brief filed in the pending court case, Department of Commerce v. New York.

The Trump administration argues that adding a question to the 2020 census asking whether individuals are U.S. citizens is necessary to enforce federal voting rights laws. Civil rights groups and other opponents say it will have a chilling effect on non-citizens and will lead to an undercounting of immigrant and Hispanic populations.

“For every person that goes uncounted, your state will be losing a particular number of dollars. It [affects] everything you can imagine, from education to health care to infrastructure … There’s no sector of American society that it doesn’t touch,” said Kelly Percival, counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit law and public policy organization focused on civil liberties.

Read the full article about how the census citizenship question would impact federal funding for education by Carolyn Phenicie at The 74.