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.”