Lawmaker From The ‘Breeding Ground’ Of The DSA Has A Warning For Americans

A Washington State lawmaker says that socialism destroyed his state’s public schools, and warns that the rest of the country is next.

“Washington is the laboratory for the Democratic Party across the nation, and whatever you think might be crazy or happening in Washington state, this is what they want for the rest of the nation, including you, and there’s no running from it,” State Rep. Travis Couture tells The Daily Wire.

“You have an enormous amount of people pulling their kids out of public schools because they don’t trust what’s going on,” Couture adds. “They don’t trust the school districts. They don’t trust that state law.”

Last year, Couture championed an amendment that would require schools to immediately alert parents if their child was sexually assaulted or abused in school by school staff. Democrats initially opposed the bill, but changed course and voted to pass it after getting negative press.

As Washington state pours money into its education budget, roughly 7-in-10 fourth graders are unable to read at their grade level and 7-in-10 eighth graders are not proficient in math. 

For the 2023-2024 school year, Washington state spent roughly $21,900 per student, compared to $12,324 in Mississippi. Yet in 2024, Mississippi outranked Washington in fourth-grade reading scores by ten places.

Washington’s achievement gaps also remain significant. In 2024, Hispanic fourth-grade students scored 23 points lower than white students in reading, while economically disadvantaged students averaged 29 points lower than their peers. Neither gap was significantly different from the corresponding gap in 1998, indicating little progress in closing the disparities.

Among eighth graders, Hispanic students scored 35 points lower than white students in math, while economically disadvantaged students scored 36 points lower than their peers, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

This comes as Americans’ satisfaction with the quality of education has reached an all-time low. A recent Gallup poll showed roughly two-in-three Americans dissatisfied with the quality of K-12 education in the United States.

Couture blamed this dissatisfaction on lawmakers pushing an ideological education rather than one rooted in teaching kids the basics, i.e., math, science, and reading.

Washington state ranks 31st in the nation for its education. State public school teachers earned an average of $96,589 during the 2024-2025 school year, according to the latest National Education Association report. Adjusting for inflation, the average teacher salary increased by roughly $2,500 from the previous school year.

In the 2025-2027 budget, the state allocated $1.4 million to support the Washington state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in ensuring schools implement gender-inclusive school requirements.

Couture also pointed to instances of wasteful spending in the state legislature as a source of public discontent, including an $800,000 study to determine how to shut down the Snake River Dam simply because Democrats want to restore endangered salmon runs.

“Our state spends incredible amounts of money for trans surgeries for our Department of Corrections inmates, which has caused a lot of problems in our prisons, especially with prison rape and other things,” Couture told The Daily Wire, adding that Washington is a “cautionary tale” for the rest of the nation.

“You have to fight it back every inch of the way,” he says. “Even if you’re in a state where you think you’re safe, you’re not safe from this stuff. It will always spread.”

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