LRB-1402/P2
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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0471 - Climate Change Standards
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
Climate change in model academic standards
This bill requires the state superintendent of public instruction to incorporate an understanding of climate, the interconnected nature of climate change, the potential local and global impacts of climate change, and individual and societal actions that may mitigate the harmful effects of climate change into DPI's model academic standards for science; agriculture, food and natural resources; english language arts; environmental literacy and sustainability; social studies; nutrition education; and mathematics. While not required by current law, DPI has adopted model academic standards in each of these subjects. Under current law, the SSPI must incorporate the history of organized labor and the collective bargaining process into DPI's model academic standards for social studies.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 115.28 (54s) of the statutes is created to read:
115.28 (54s) Climate change; model academic standards. If the state superintendent adopts model academic standards for any of the following subjects, incorporate an understanding of climate, the interconnected nature of climate change, the potential local and global impacts of climate change, and individual and societal actions that may mitigate the harmful effects of climate change into the model academic standards for that subject:
(a) Science.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Social studies.
(d) English language arts.
(e) Agriculture.
(f) Food and natural resources.
(g) Environmental literacy and sustainability.
(h) Nutrition education.
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