1. How to Tell If Your School Model Is Still Causing Harm
A clear, practical test to assess whether a district is maintaining a compliance-driven system—or redesigning it.

2. Washington Law Requires More Than “Good Enough”
Why Every Child Is Entitled to a Safe, Appropriate, High‑Quality Education—and How Modern Science Now Defines What That Means

3. Law and Student Protections for Every Washington Student
What Washington law already requires to provide every student a safe, appropriate, and high-quality public education.

4. When Inaction Has Consequences
What publicly reported data reveal about predictable risk and preventable harm.

5. When the School Model Itself Drives Budget Shortfalls
How a 150-year-old system design drives budget strain while weakening learning and student mental health.

6. What the Initiative Does — and Why It’s Different
The purpose, scope, and design of the Washington Youth Mental Health & Public School Promise Initiative.

7. Our Three-Year Strategy (2026–2028): From Evidence to Redesign
A cost-neutral roadmap for public school redesign grounded in evidence.

8. Nine Authoritative Sources
The scientific and institutional consensus informing public education redesign.

9. Washington’s Two Eras of School Reform
Why decades of reform have changed policy, spending, and compliance—but not core student outcomes.

10. When a System Appears to Work for Some
How financial, professional, and political incentives sustain a compliance-based school model despite evidence of harm.

11. When Good Intentions Sustain Harm
How well-meaning community support and local recognition can unintentionally preserve misaligned school models.

12. Why Reforms Keep Failing
Why UDL, MTSS, SEL, and other evidence-based reforms fail when layered onto an unchanged system.

13. Why Reading Reform Alone Keeps Failing
How the science of reading matters—but cannot substitute for system redesign.

14. When System Harm Reaches Teachers Too
How a compliance-driven model fuels burnout, intimidation, and psychological harm among educators.

15. When Discipline Becomes Damage
How exclusionary, compliance-based discipline undermines belonging, mental health, and long-term outcomes.

16. Neurodivergent Learners & System Design
Why students with disabilities and other neurodivergent learners expose the limits of one-size-fits-all schooling.

17.When Special Education Is Asked to Carry the System
How a standardized school model shifts structural failure onto children—and why redesign is now unavoidable.

18. Why Less School Time Isn’t the Answer to Student Distress
Why four-day school weeks function as a budget-driven response that shifts costs onto students, especially the most vulnerable.

19. When Leadership Defaults to Maintenance
How superintendents and school boards can move from managing a harmful model to leading science-aligned redesign.

20. McCleary: Why Funding the Wrong Model Can’t Fulfill a Constitutional Duty
Why Washington’s McCleary investments require alignment with system redesign.

21. The Public Microschool Pilot Inside District Schools
A science-aligned pilot pathway districts can implement inside public schools—without privatization or exclusion.

22. Education Leaders Speak Out
Why respected leaders across education, science, policy, and journalism agree public education must be redesigned.

23. to Tell If Your District Is Actually Working
Using Washington’s own data to assess student learning and well-being.

24. Understand Your School District’s Data
How to access, interpret, and compare publicly available district data.

25. Letters to Washington’s Education Community
Direct messages to superintendents, boards, educators, families, and funders.