Climate change education legislation in Vermont

Nichols Pond, Woodbury, Vermont.

Nichols Pond, Woodbury, Vermont. Photo by Yifu Wu on Unsplash.

Vermont's Senate Bill 175 (PDF) would, if enacted, "require the Secretary of Education to develop an interdisciplinary climate change curriculum as well as require the State Board of Education to update its Education Quality Standards rules to require supervisory-union-wide curricula to include climate change education."

The bill was introduced on January 6, 2026, by Anne Watson (Democrat/Progressive-Washington District) — a high school physics teacher by trade — and referred to the Senate Committee on Education. It is apparently the first climate change education bill to be introduced in Vermont.

Glenn Branch
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Glenn Branch is Deputy Director of NCSE.

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