Work to close educational achievement gaps for several minority groups in Washington state is being hindered by a lack of data, according to people involved in the yearslong effort.

A new series of achievement gap studies was released in June. These suggest some marginal improvement in closing achievement gaps for several minority groups over the past 16 years, but that more work is needed to support students of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

The reports, conducted by the Commission on African American Affairs , the Commission on Hispanic Affairs , the Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs and the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs, were follow-ups to a series of landmark studies released in 2008 that prompted the Legislature to create the Educational Oppor

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