{"id":2997,"date":"2023-01-26T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/wilson\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2023-01-30T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:24:50","slug":"students-champion-two-senate-education-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/wilson\/2023\/01\/26\/students-champion-two-senate-education-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Students champion two Senate education bills\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> \u2013 Jan. 26 2023<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Washington students are championing two bills that will be heard by the Senate Early Learning and K-12 Education committee.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?billnumber=5355&amp;year=2023&amp;initiative=False\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Senate Bill 5355<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0would mandate Washington schools provide instruction on sex trafficking prevention and identification.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SB 5355 stems from years of hard work by Ria Bahadur, a senior at Eastside Preparatory School. She took on this very critical issue and came up with a solution by creating, drafting and negotiating the bill.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Youth voices are extremely powerful. They deal with youth for youth. We are experiencing society and we are not isolated from these issues. Adults assume that we young people haven\u2019t experienced some of these tricky or difficult subjects, but we have and we are,\u201d Bahadur said. \u201cEducation on these topics is so critical and especially education designed by youth, because the current system reinforces societal apathy based on social and cultural lack of understanding around these insidious and rampant crimes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Bahadur is also a member of the Legislative Youth Advisory Council, which is made up of 22 young scholars from across Washington.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">LYAC <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is the only nonpartisan, youth-led committee empowered by state law to represent the official voice of Washington youth to the legislature.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Together, these young people drafted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=5441&amp;Initiative=false&amp;Year=2023\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Senate Bill 5441,<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> which <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">promotes the adoption of school curricula that is diverse, equitable and inclusive.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cOur students are our future. They are engaged and they offer a perspective that we adults do not have,\u201d said Senator Claire Wilson (D-Auburn). \u201cThese students offered crucial insights into the needs of their classmates and I am proud to have worked with them to bring these bills to the Senate.\u201d <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \u2013 Jan. 26 2023\u00a0 Washington students are championing two bills that will be heard by the Senate Early Learning and K-12 Education committee.\u00a0\u00a0 Senate Bill 5355\u00a0would mandate Washington schools provide instruction on sex trafficking prevention and identification.\u00a0 SB 5355 stems from years of hard work by Ria Bahadur, a senior at Eastside Preparatory School. She took on this very critical issue and came up with a solution by creating, drafting and negotiating the bill.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYouth voices are extremely powerful. They deal with youth for youth. We are experiencing society and we are not isolated from these issues&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Students champion two Senate education bills\u00a0\u00a0 - Sen. 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