Senate Bill 410 would, if enacted, promote climate education by adding the phrase “climate science and climate solutions” to a list of topics that the state board of elementary and secondary education is allowed to include in the state’s education standards.
Massachusetts’s standards already include climate science and climate solutions. In “Making the Grade?” — the NCSE/TFNEF study of the treatment of climate change in state science standards conducted in 2020 — Massachusetts’s standards received a B+.
The bill was introduced by Paul W. Mark (D-Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin, and Hampshire) on February 27, 2025, and referred to the Joint Committee on Education, where it is scheduled to receive a hearing on September 16, 2025.