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Education
CAPAC Education Taskforce
Chair Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
1410 Longworth
(202) 225-4906
hirono.house.gov
Increase and Improve Data on AAPI Students
- Increase the reporting of disaggregated student achievement data based on ethnicity and increase the reporting of the school resources provided to communities that face educational challenges.
- Create and fund programs that increase the number of AAPI researchers in education in order to ensure that AAPI perspectives are included when developing research on education.
Ensure Sustainable Funding and Support to the AANAPISI Program
- Provide increased and sustainable support and funding for the Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program to help underserved students overcome barriers to a college degree.
- Explore combined Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) funding for institutions that enroll higher percentages of more than one minority group.
Improve Capacity of Educational Institutions to Serve AAPIs
- Increase funding for programs that can increase the capacity of schools and school districts to serve AAPI students.
- Ensure Title III funds reach AAPI students
- Ensure that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) includes funding mechanisms that adequately and fairly address the student populations of the territories and the Freely Associated States (FAS).
- Promote legislation and policies that will encourage states to appropriately integrate AAPI issues throughout the standards of learning in all subject areas and for all grade levels.
Improve Assessment of AAPI Students, Especially AAPI English Language Learners (ELLs)
- Develop policies in Title I and Title VI of ESEA that require schools and districts to use the most appropriate form of assessments as deemed valid and reliable by education experts in measuring ELL student achievement and to provide accommodations for ELL students such as, but not limited to: native language assessments, dictionaries, additional time for tests, and interpreters.
- Mandate and provide funds for states to develop accountability systems that are based on multiple measures.
Improve Teacher Preparation and Quality
- Provide targeted financial and other resources in Title II of the Higher Education Act and Title II of ESEA for pre-service and in-service teacher education and professional development programs so that the linguistic, cultural, and other educational needs of AAPI students can be more adequately addressed.
- Improve recruitment and retention of AAPI Teachers, Administrators, and staff
Improve AAPI Parental Involvement Programs
- Enforce the language access and parent engagement provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Title I of No Child Left Behind.
- Increase funding for schools to provide necessary translators and culturally/linguistically competent home-school coordinators who can work with AAPI parents and caregivers.
- Support policies and funding for community-based organizations working in AAPI communities to engage parents and caregivers in local schools.
Increase Availability of Early Childhood Education
- Provide greater funds to promote free quality public school pre-kindergarten programs and full-day kindergarten programs.
Safe Environments for All Students
- Strengthen Title IV, Part A, of the ESEA covering “Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities” by requiring schools to take additional steps to prevent, keep records of, and report bullying and harassment, and to educate school staff and students about these issues.
- Enable OCR regional offices to pursue more discrimination and harassment claims.