The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) wants families to know about new resources explaining how the Office of Education Ombuds (OEO) can help families and WA public K-12 schools to have successful family-school partnerships throughout the new school year.

OEO is an independent state agency that helps to reduce educational opportunity gaps by supporting families, students, educators, and other stakeholders in communities across WA by sharing information about the K-12 public school system and resolving concerns collaboratively.  OEO services are free and confidential. Anyone can contact OEO with a question or concern about school.

OEO listens, shares information and referrals, and works informally with families, communities, and schools to address concerns so that every student can fully participate and thrive in our state’s public schools. OEO provides support in multiple languages and has telephone interpretation available. To get help or learn more about what OEO does, please visit our website; email [email protected], or call:  1-866-297-2597 (interpretation available).

OEO has many publications available on the OEO webpage, including new flyers in the following languages:

The Bellevue School District acknowledges that we learn, work, live and gather on the Indigenous Land of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish and Snoqualmie Tribes. We thank these caretakers of this land, who have lived and continue to live here, since time immemorial.