Studying Hawaii’s AAPI Community
The state is one of three selected by the U.S. Department of Education for聽data collection on聽Asian American Pacific Islander students.
The U.S. Department of Education said聽Monday $836,000 in grants will go to Minnesota, Washington state and Hawaii.
Why?
To聽“improve data collection” of Asian American Pacific Islander students and “to help identify effective practices to close achievement and opportunity gaps through data analysis.”
The AAPI Data Disaggregation Initiative聽seeks to better account for “the diversity in background cultures and languages” in the AAPI community.
The grant program will award up to $1 million per year for five years to states.
厂补颈诲听U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. in a press release,聽鈥淭hese grants support the Obama administration鈥檚 commitment to improve data collection, helping to identify educational opportunity gaps and tailor support to improve the college-and career-readiness of underserved AAPI students and English learners.鈥
The DOE says that聽the聽new initiative could聽impact 1聽million AAPI students in the three states.
鈥淎sian Americans and Pacific Islanders have too often been subjected to the model minority myth, the notion that they are all successful, educated, and self-sufficient, which has masked unique needs of AAPI subgroups,鈥 said Doua Thor, executive director for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
