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Supports using state funds to improve school facilities, including air and water quality.

Supports funding for Hope Education, an evidence-based model to teach students how to retain and build hope and confidence in themselves.

Supports expanding Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.

Believes states should have the authority to control their curriculum policies, course options, graduation requirements, state assessments, and teacher evaluation systems.

Supports funding for Head Start and the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program.

Supports expanding dual language programs.

- Supports using state funds to improve school facilities, including air and water quality.
- Supports funding for Hope Education, an evidence-based model to teach students how to retain and build hope and confidence in themselves.
- Supports gender diversity education.
- Supports expanding Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.
- Believes states should have the authority to control their curriculum policies, course options, graduation requirements, state assessments, and teacher evaluation systems.
- Supports funding for Head Start and the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program.
- Supports expanding dual language programs.

School Curriculum

Believes the state has underinvested in services for students with disabilities.

Believes Washington State has a "deeply inequitable approach to funding school buildings and facilities."

- Believes the state has underinvested in services for students with disabilities.
- Believes Washington State has a "deeply inequitable approach to funding school buildings and facilities."

School Facilities & Resources

Opposes out-of-pocket fees for students taking college credit while in high school.

- Opposes out-of-pocket fees for students taking college credit while in high school.

Access to Education

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Supports funding for physical, social, and emotional support staff, including counselors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and family engagement coordinators.

Supports honoring a student’s chosen name and pronouns in the classroom.

Supports free school breakfast and lunch for all students.

- Supports funding for physical, social, and emotional support staff, including counselors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and family engagement coordinators.
- Supports honoring a student’s chosen name and pronouns in the classroom.
- Supports gun control.
- Supports free school breakfast and lunch for all students.

Student Wellbeing

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Plans to focus on targeted academic interventions and improved teaching practices to ensure every student has the opportunity to succeed.

Plans to focus on targeted academic interventions and improved teaching practices.

Believes in prioritizing academic rigor and support opportunities in school curriculum.

Supports maintaining highly capable/gifted programs and Advanced Placement (AP) classes.

Supports maintaining gifted programs and Advanced Placement (AP) classes.

- Plans to focus on targeted academic interventions and improved teaching practices.
- Believes in prioritizing academic rigor and support opportunities in school curriculum.
- Supports maintaining gifted programs and Advanced Placement (AP) classes.

As of October 7, 2024, David Olson’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Supports providing additional resources and tutoring for struggling students, as well as expanding skilled trades programs.

Believes chronic absenteeism has increased under the current superintendent, depriving children of learning opportunities, and plans to advocate for policies that partner with parents and students to reduce absenteeism.

Plans to advocate for policies that partner with parents and students to reduce absenteeism.

- Supports providing additional resources and tutoring for struggling students, as well as expanding skilled trades programs.
- Plans to advocate for policies that partner with parents and students to reduce absenteeism.

Believes most teachers oppose the Student Based Assessment (SBA) because "the results are attached to individual students and not an assessment of the system."

Believes most teachers oppose the Student Based Assessment (SBA)

Supports designing a new assessment system that provides educators with more immediate and actionable data to tailor instruction to meet students' needs.

- Believes most teachers oppose the Student Based Assessment (SBA)
- Supports designing a new assessment system that provides educators with more immediate and actionable data to tailor instruction to meet students' needs.

Believes teachers need more support in addressing student mental health issues.

Supports policies reducing cellphone and banning social media use in schools.

- Believes teachers need more support in addressing student mental health issues.
- Supports policies reducing cellphone and banning social media use in schools.

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David Olson

- The superintendent of public instruction heads the state's Department of Public Instruction, overseeing education statewide. The department creates and shares state education policies, supports school districts, and oversees K-12 education.
- The superintendent's office oversees graduation requirements and residency programs and can advocate for funding from the legislature. 
- They are paid a salary of $153,000.