This bill creates a new, statewide procedural requirement that educational service districts (ESDs) jointly develop, periodically refine, host, and promote a voluntary online family satisfaction survey about public education. The survey must include a statewide student identifier for at least one currently or recently enrolled student, be maintained on at least one ESD website by September 1, 2025, and be distributed annually to school districts, public schools, and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). ESDs must assign responses to the appropriate district and school using statewide student identifiers, remove parent/guardian and student names before sharing, disaggregate responses by statutory student categories and reasons for disenrollment and transfer, and work with OSPI to publish an annually updated, publicly available sortable summary of results. Implementation must comply with FERPA, RCW 28A.605.030, and other applicable privacy laws. The bill also amends existing law. RCW 28A.600.510 is amended to require public schools, beginning August 1, 2023, to provide students and parents/guardians at initial enrollment with a description of the Office of the Education Ombuds services and contact information and to either post that information and a prominent link to the Ombuds’ complaint resolution and referral access point on their website or include it in annually shared materials; the Office of the Education Ombuds is required to have developed a template of this information (translated as resources allow) by July 1, 2022. Beginning August 1, 2026, school districts and public schools must share the survey link with parents/guardians of enrolled and recently disenrolled students using the same communication methods required for the Ombuds information. RCW 28A.225.220 is amended to change transfer and enrollment procedures: boards may enter agreements with adults attending school and charge reasonable tuition; districts are encouraged to honor parent/guardian requests for cross-district attendance or transfer as home-based instruction; resident districts must release students to nonresident districts that agree to accept them under specified conditions (financial, educational, safety/health improvements, parent work or child care accessibility, special hardship, or enrollment in an approved online course/provider), unless release would adversely affect a desegregation plan; resident districts may request an optional exit interview or questionnaire from parents/guardians of transferring children; and transfer fees or tuition for nonresident students enrolled under a specified subsection are prohibited beginning with the 1993-94 school year, with related reimbursement language retained. Definitions, affected agencies, and some implementation details are referenced but not fully set out in the extracted text: the new section to chapter 28A.310 RCW is not given a section number here; the student categories for disaggregation are cited to RCW 28A.300.042(1) and (3) but not defined in the extract; the Ombuds’ “complaint resolution and referral access point” is referenced to RCW 43.06B.070 but not described; and specifics of how compliance with federal and state student privacy laws must be achieved are not detailed.

If enacted, educational service districts (ESDs) must create and run a voluntary online family satisfaction survey, put it online by September 1, 2025, distribute the link annually to districts and OSPI, and use statewide student identifiers to assign responses to the students’ schools after removing names. ESDs must also break down results by specified student categories and reasons for leaving or transferring, work with OSPI to publish a publicly sortable summary on OSPI and at least one ESD website, and ensure the whole process follows federal and state student privacy laws. Schools must already provide families with Office of the Education Ombuds information starting August 1, 2023, and beginning August 1, 2026 they must share the survey link with enrolled and recently disenrolled families; districts are also encouraged or required in some cases to accept transfers, may request optional exit interviews, and face limits on charging transfer fees under the amended transfer rules. The groups most affected are ESDs (new ongoing responsibilities and likely added costs for running the survey, redacting and disaggregating responses, and meeting privacy requirements), OSPI (publishing and hosting summary data), and school districts/schools (new duties to share links and handle transfer-related requests that could change enrollment patterns and related funding). Parents and guardians will be asked to submit one survey per student per school year and may be asked for optional exit information. Important details are missing here — the precise student category definitions for disaggregation, the specific new code section number, and the operational details of complying with FERPA and state privacy rules — so exact workload, cost, and privacy-risk outcomes are uncertain.