Pacific Islanders are nearly twice as likely as their White peers to be disciplined

Research on the school discipline gap reveals growing awareness of the disproportionate impact on students of color; however, dynamics of the racial discipline gap remain underanalyzed. This article uses risk ratios to descriptively establish if ethnic disproportionality in school discipline is present among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) subgroups.

Pacific Islanders are nearly twice as likely as their White peers to be disciplined, and all Pacific Islander subgroups are at equal or higher risk for discipline.