AB 833

This bill authorizes the state superintendent of public instruction to adopt

model academic standards related to climate change. If the state superintendent

adopts model climate change standards, they must incorporate a) an understanding

of climate, b) the interconnected nature of climate change, c) the potential local and

global impacts of climate change, and d) the individual and societal actions that may

mitigate the harmful effects of climate change. The bill also allows the state

superintendent to a) provide grants to or contract with other state agencies or

nonprofit organizations to develop climate change curriculum resources and b) to

assist school districts in developing climate change curriculum resources. In either

case, the bill requires that, if the state superintendent adopts climate change model

academic standards, the climate change curriculum resources align with those

standards.