Laws
The All Students Count Act, passed in 2017, requires the Department of Education, when collecting racial data “for a report that includes educational proficiencies, graduation rates, attendance rates, and access to educational resources,” to “always include, but not be limited to, the following Asian ethnic groups: (i) Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Laotian, Vietnamese, and other Southeast Asian ethnic groups.” R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-108-3
Another law created a commission that will “make recommendations for the coordination by the department of health, other agencies, organizations and institutions as needed to design and implement a training curriculum for primary data collectors and disseminate best practices for collection of race, ethnicity, social determinants of health and language data.” R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-64.1-7. However, the law does not specifically require disaggregation of race or ethnicity data.