2022 Legislative Priorities
Washington’s educators are rising to the challenge of meeting our students’ needs from early learning to higher education with creativity, flexibility, and dedication, regardless of what the pandemic brings. But now the more than 18 months of adaptation are taking a toll on our school and college communities, laying bare inequities and resource gaps that we have an urgent and unique opportunity to address.
Our students are arriving in classrooms with more acute mental, physical, and social-emotional health needs. We have implemented new supports and new flexibility for students that begin to address the pandemic challenges; it’s time to bolster those innovations and recognize the permanent need for those, and more.
