SEAAs’ refugee history, their invisibility in education data and policy, and systemic racism create barriers to our students’ educational success. Our government must address the disparities that SEAA students experience and invest in their futures.
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SEARAC Responds to President’s FY2025 Budget Proposal
WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the Biden administration released the Fiscal Year 2025 President’s Budget. The annual budget proposal details the President’s priorities for the upcoming fiscal year and, though non-binding,…
Learn more“My commitment to educational advocacy is shaped by my personal experience as a low-income, immigrant Southeast Asian student in the U.S public school system and my professional experiences as a teacher and youth facilitator. As a high school student, I experienced firsthand a lack of a culturally inclusive education and witnessed an unequal distribution of resources between my high school and the wealthier, predominantly white high school just across the bridge. Yet, I did not have the language to name what I was experiencing.”
SEARAC LAT 2019 participant
We need to be actively thinking about creative spaces and after-school programs that encourage participation from refugee parents in preparing their children for college. More importantly, we need to address language access. Without the ability to read documents or understand robocalls, parents are further barred from being informed on their child’s educational attainment and success.”
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell
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Since 2018, SEARAC has convened the Southeast Asian American Collaborative, comprising 17 SEAA community-based organizations across California. Our latest blog post spotlighted Collaborative member @hipcalifornia.
Read more from HIP Director of Policy and Partnerships Kao Ye Thao, who offers her reflections on people power and what federal advocacy can look like. Link in bio.
Sep 3
Reposted from @npquarterly • Twelve percent of Asian American adults ages 25 and older have not finished high school.
(For Cambodian adults, the rate is 28 percent.)
When federal agencies Southeast Asian American communities only within an imprecise “Asian American” category, disparities like this are obscured.
In this piece, Quyên Đinh, executive director of the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, explains why collecting and reporting data by ethnicity is a civil rights issue—and how Southeast Asian American leaders are fighting for it.
Data does not simply describe who lives here. It influences which disparities the government recognizes—and addresses.
✍🏽: Quyên Đinh of Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
🔗: Link in comments and bio under #WeTheCivic
#WeTheCivic #DataEquity #SEAAVoices
Sep 2
🚨🆕! APIAVote and AAPI Data, in collaboration with NCAPA, have produced the 2026 AAPI Voters Data and Narrative Toolkit ahead of this November’s elections. AAPI voters are the fastest-growing voter demographic with tremendous potential to impact the outcome in key races across the country. Outreach to these communities needs to be prioritized, and this toolkit is meant to help elevate that argument to news media, funders, campaigns, elected representatives, and other relevant stakeholders to better understand and engage AAPI communities! 🗳️📢
This toolkit provides a standardized, evidence-based, and field-tested set of facts and messaging resources for AAPI community organizers and advocates and will be updated as new data becomes available.
🔗 Explore today at the link in bio!
#MidtermElections #AAPIVoters #AAPIElectorate #VoterData
Aug 31
Have you already taken action to ensure AANHPI students are seen and supported?
SEARAC, NCAPA, and more than 50 organizations are calling on Congress to cosponsor the All Students Count Act. The bill would provide more detailed education data to help schools better understand student outcomes and direct resources where they are needed most.
Join us in urging your representative and senators to act. Take action at the link in our bio.
#AllStudentsCount #AANHPI #EducationEquity #DataEquity #BackToSchool
Aug 28
SEARAC and AAPI Data’s latest fact sheet, Southeast Asian American Deportations: Trends and Policy Implications, makes one thing clear: we must act now to keep our families together.
Southeast Asian American communities are being targeted at an alarming rate, with 42% of ALL Southeast Asian deportations since 1998 happening in just the last two fiscal years, including a more than 20x increase in deportations of our elders. People who have called the United States home for decades, many since childhood, are being sent to countries they no longer have connection to. We need policy solutions that ensure dignity for our communities and respect for human life. Read the fact sheet and our policy recommendations at the link in our bio or bit.ly/seadeportationtrends2026
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Aug 27
