Students at more than 50 high schools across the US are proposing a , demanding that their districts teach climate justice, create pathways to green jobs after graduation and plan for climate disasters, among other policies.
The campaign, coordinated by the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate justice collective, is a reaction to rightwing efforts to ban or suppress climate education and activism at schools. The national effort could include teach-ins and walkouts, as well as targeted petitions to school boards and districts in the coming weeks, organizers with Sunrise told the Guardian, ahead of the Monday launch.
