1. Short title This Act may be cited as the All Students Count Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Asian Americans, as well as Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, are an incredibly diverse population. Due to this diversity, the United States Office of Management and Budget’s Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 of 1997, entitled Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting , separated the Asian and Pacific Islander category into two distinct and separate categories, now called Asians and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders , and these two distinct categories were used in the 2000 United States Census. As of 2022, the United States Census Bureau reports data for at least 27 different ethnicities within these two categories. (2) While Asian Americans, as well as Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, are often misrepresented as a homogeneous group, their diversity represents ethnicities from over 30 different countries. They also experience diverse social and educational differences that are unique to their respective communities. (3) For example, there are now over 3,000,000 Southeast Asian Americans in the United States, including 1,100,000 refugees from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, who escaped war, persecution, and genocide. Southeast Asian Americans’ experiences with violence and the stressors associated with relocation have negatively affected their educational outcomes. According to data from the Bureau of the Census, around a quarter of Southeast Asian American adults aged 25 and older do not have a high school diploma, compared to 12 percent of the total population. An additional 42 percent of Cambodian, 44 percent of Hmong, 48 percent of Lao, and 37 percent of Vietnamese American high school graduates have not continued on to earn their bachelor’s degree, compared to 29 percent of all Asian Americans. (4) The history of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders include forced migration and complex political relationships with the United