‘No left-wing indoctrination’: Climate science under attack in classrooms

Photo caption: Kids arrive at Freedom Elementary School in San Antonio last month. Photo credit: Eric Gay / AP Photo. Article by Scott Waldman. E&E News by Politico – September 12, 2023.

Political battles over climate change are increasingly being fought in the classroom. Conservative activists and politicians in states across the country are trying to limit or distort the teaching of climate science to schoolchildren, marking a growing front in the culture war against social movements over race, gender identity and the environment. State education officials, local school board members and Republican lawmakers in states from Florida to Montana have tried to reshape climate curriculum […]

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