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Senate panel approves amendment expanding climate education to several subjects
Summary
The Senate Education Committee adopted an amendment that narrows a previous proposal to require climate change instruction in core subjects and instead directs the State Board of Education to ensure climate education is included in specific subjects during standards reviews; the committee then sent the amended bill to the floor with a do-pass.
The Senate Education Committee on May 21 adopted an amendment to House Bill 3,365 that replaces a requirement to include climate change instruction in "core subjects" with a directive that the State Board of Education ensure climate education is included in science, health, history, geography, economics and civics during standards reviews. The committee later voted to send the bill as amended to the floor with a do-pass recommendation.
The amendment — described in the hearing as the “dash 8” change — was presented to the committee by staff. Committee members debated whether instruction about causes, effects and response strategies for climate change belongs in K–12 standards. In committee discussion some members expressed concern that climate change is politicized and that…
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