Vermont's climate change education bill dies

Nichols Pond, Woodbury, Vermont.

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

Vermont's Senate Bill 175 (PDF), apparently the first climate change education bill introduced in the state, died in committee when a March 13, 2026, deadline for bills to pass committee expired. The bill was introduced by Anne Watson (Democrat/Progressive-Washington District), a former high school science teacher.

If enacted, the bill would have "require[d] 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."

Glenn Branch
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Glenn Branch is Deputy Director of NCSE.

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