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About Us
We are holding a listening tour, developing an action plan, and building a coalition to support our schools to be a force toward climate action, solutions, and environmental justice.
Serving nearly one in six Americans, K-12 public schools can play a critical role in moving our country towards environmental sustainability. If all the schools in the U.S. were to shift to clean energy, sustainable food use, and non-fossil fuel transportation over the next decade, we will have successfully transitioned one of the largest public sectors impacting the environment. And what makes schools especially impactful is the potential for them to transition to sustainability while educating their students helping prepare youth to confront the climate challenges of the future.
As public entities, schools need the support of policy, but few policy proposals consider the role of the education sector in advancing sustainability and few school systems have acted systemically to address climate change.
We are launching a commission to learn about the needs and opportunities for schools to move toward climate action. The commission will develop an action plan that considers how the education sector can mitigate, adapt, educate, and advance equity to respond and address climate change.
We are building a coalition of people and organizations from across the country who believe our schools will be an essential tool in the fight against climate change and want to support our schools to be a force toward climate action, solutions, and environmental justice.
Join this coalition and share your ideas about what schools should do.
The Commission

Sec. John B. King Jr., co-chair
President and CEO, The Education Trust

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, co-chair
President, Whitman Strategy Group

Naina Agrawal-Hardin
High School Senior, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Megan Bang
Professor, Northwestern University

Vic Barrett
Network Organizer, Power Shift

Rep. Carlos Curbelo
Principal, Vocero LLC

Linda Darling-Hammond
President, California State Board of Education

Debra Duardo
Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles County

Lisa Hoyos
Founder, Climate Parents; Director of Climate Strategy, LCV

Richard Knoeppel
Teacher, Advanced Technologies Academy

Dan Lashof
U.S. Director, World Resources Institute

Gov. Jack Markell
Former Governor of Delaware

Pedro Martinez
Superintendent, San Antonio ISD

Marc Morial
President and CEO, National Urban League

Janet Murguía
President and CEO, UnidosUS

Kiera O'Brien
Founder and President, Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends

Nikki Pitre
Executive Director, Center for Native American Youth

Becky Pringle
President, National Education Association

Carla Thompson Payton
Vice President, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Sec. Pedro Rivera
President, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology

Valerie Rockefeller
Board Chair, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers
The Staff

Laura Schifter
Senior Fellow

Nikki DeVignes
Assistant Director
The Coalition
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