FAIR Washington focuses on K-12 issues, and we’d like to grow our volunteer base to tackle other issues, such as arts and culture, or gender ideology. The more volunteers we have, the more we can do locally and statewide to promote fairness and respect for all. If you would like to get involved, email us at [email protected], or fill out the contact form at the bottom.
Chapter Leadership
Action Plan
Promoting Non-Ideological K-12 Education &
Challenging Liberated Ethnic Studies
Liberated Ethnic Studies is a divisive, partisan philosophy that divides us by our immutable characteristics such as race and denies our shared humanity. Liberated Ethnic Studies is endorsed in the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Ethnic Studies Framework and in the State Board of Education’s (SBE) Resolution of Intent to establish an ethnic studies graduation requirement with an “explicit anti-racist lens” through which all K-12 classes will be taught.
FAIR WA has opposed liberated ethnic studies through our members’ citizen testimony and letters to the Professional Education Standards Board. Our members also gave public comments during SBE and OSPI meetings. Our FAIR WA Position Paper to SBE, which was sent to SBE, OSPI, and the Washington State Attorney General’s office, detailed our concern that a K-12 ethnic studies graduation requirement could potentially violate the state constitution.
Liberated Ethnic Studies in the Classroom
To find out what was happening in Washington’s K-12 classes, FAIR WA submitted public records requests to Seattle Public Schools and four other Puget Sound school districts’ for ethnic studies’ lesson plans, curricula, and other educational materials. Over a half-dozen dedicated volunteers reviewed and documented hundreds of files showing that school children (sometimes as early as kindergarten) are being taught to view the world through an “oppressed / oppressor” lens, and the most important thing about them is their skin color, biological sex, or other group identity.
Equally alarming, the Seattle materials show potential violations of:
- Constitutional protections of free speech and free thought
- The Washington State Constitution’s ban on sectarianism in public education
- The Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 28A.655.300 mandate for ethnic studies that prepares students to be “global citizens in a global society with an appreciation for the contributions of diverse cultures.”
On August 10, 2025, FAIR WA sent a Briefing Packet with exhibits to the Seattle School Board and key District staff asking them to meet with us in September 2025 to discuss its ethnic studies practices, and to implement accurate, non-partisan, and non-biased educational materials that celebrate understanding, fairness, and our shared humanity, such as FAIR’s new Many Stories, One Nation Curriculum.
The briefing packet exhibits are from the following two files, of many, we received from Seattle Public Schools.
Call to Action 2026 – You Can Create Change For Seattle’s School Children
This year we’ve had several positive meetings with Seattle Public School’s new Superintendent, including presenting FAIR’s Many Stories, One National Curriculum. Going forward, we’ll be recontacting several Puget Sound school districts for updated information on ethnic studies in their classrooms.
Other priorities are introducing more school districts to Many Stories, One Nation, and bringing parent, student, and teacher experiences to public meetings and upcoming school board elections. Most important of all, we want to hear what’s happening locally and help our members navigate ethnic studies or similar challenges in their school district.
Please contact us if you’d like to speak up for positive change in our children’s lives. We can provide talking points, trainings, legal consultation, and other support.
Please join us. We want your energy, ideas, and skills.
The more volunteers and local leaders we have, the louder our voice will be, and the stronger we’ll be at promoting quality K-12 education and basic fairness in our communities, and in ta.