Laws
Rhode Island Requires the Collection of Disaggregated Data for Asian Communities (Board of Education)
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.
