Bill > H5453

This bill, the "All Students Count Act," requires the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (RIDE) to use separate data collection categories and tabulations for specified Asian ethnic groups, including Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Laotian, Vietnamese, and other Southeast Asian groups, in every demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of students. This is to ensure better data transparency and representation of the diverse Asian student population. The bill also mandates RIDE to cross-tabulate student outcome data by gender, disability, and English proficiency, and to make the demographic data publicly available on their website, while protecting personal identifying information. The bill applies only to the public elementary and secondary education system and not to postsecondary education.

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