"The legislature plans to continue the important work of dismantling institutional racism in public schools and recognizes the importance of increasing equity, diversity, inclusion, antiracism, and cultural competency training throughout the entire public school system by providing training programs for classified staff, certificated instructional staff, certificated administrative staff, superintendents, and school directors that will be provided in an ongoing manner.”
---From the text of Senate Bill 5044, which passed the legislature and was signed by Gov. Inslee.
The bill is commonly referred to as the "critical race theory" bill, CRT is an idea that has grown out of Marxist ideology. It pushes the beliefs that "equity" can only be achieved in society by redistributing wealth and opportunity.