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Edmonds-Woodway High School senior Scarlett Luo joined several members of the Seattle nonprofit Make Us Visible Washington in testifying before the State Senate Wednesday about SB 5574. The bill would require Washington school districts to include Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Latino American and Black American history in K-12 social studies courses. If passed, the requirement would be implemented in the 2029-30 school year.
The bill was introduced during the 2025 legislative session but was not moved forward, according to Luo.
Luo highlighted before the Senate the murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin, who was killed in 1982 in Detroit, Michigan, by two white men with a baseball bat because of his race…