Faced with a legislative effort to remove references of human-caused climate change from the state’s education standards, NCSE Teacher Ambassador Erin Stutzman in 2018 worked with several of her students to testify in opposition.
One of those students, Emily Her, who at the time was a senior at Timberline High School in Boise, Idaho, told the Idaho House Education Committee, according to an article in the New York Times following her testimony, that she was leading a petition in support of climate education. Her also said she feared for the education of students in parts of the state where teachers have decided not to risk taking on a socially controversial - but scientifically accepted - topic like human-caused climate change.