ESB 5462 — Promoting inclusive learning standards and instructional materials in public schools.

What this bill does

Requires the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), in consultation with the Washington State LGBTQ Commission (Commission), to review and update by December 1, 2024, relevant state learning standards at all grade levels to include the histories, contributions, and perspectives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Requires the Washington State School Directors' Association (WSSDA), with the assistance of the OSPI, to review and update by June 1, 2025, a model policy and procedure that requires school district boards of directors (school boards) to adopt inclusive curricula and select diverse, equitable, inclusive, and age-appropriate instructional materials that include the histories, contributions, and perspectives of historically marginalized and underrepresented groups. Requires school boards, charter schools, and state-tribal education compact schools to adopt curricula that are consistent with the WSSDA model policy and procedure on inclusive curricula. Requires, subject to funding provisions, each educational service district to designate a regional inclusive curricula coordinator and a regional youth advisory council for inclusive curricula and equity. Requires, subject to funding provisions, the OSPI, in collaboration with specified entities, to create an open educational resource database for developing inclusive curricula that includes resources about the histories, contributions, and perspectives of historically marginalized and underrepresented groups.

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Floor votes

• House — Final Passage as Amended by the House · February 29, 2024
  56 yea · 37 nay · 5 not voting
• Senate — Final Passage as Amended by the House · March 4, 2024
  28 yea · 20 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · January 17, 2024
  29 yea · 19 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 28, 2023
  29 yea · 19 nay · 1 not voting

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