Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB): Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 9 bills from the 2025-26 session under Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB). Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1295 · Training, requiring new standards for reading and writing literacy competency
• HB 1296 · Unprofessional conduct, designating willful noncompliance with law as
• HB 1795 · Certification, to include foundational knowledge and skills of student behavior management
• HB 1832 · Structured literacy program, revising teacher standards to accommodate
• HB 2138 · Structured literacy program requirements, restrictions, and training
• SB 5025 · Certification, requiring establishment of standards for educational interpreters
• SB 5179 · State law, requiring school district superintendent's willful noncompliance be made unprofessional conduct
• SB 5654 · Certification, to include foundational knowledge and skills of student behavior management
• SB 6278 · Specifying requirements for ongoing review of preparation programs

All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills

Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.