Her wrote in an email. Lawmakers rejected a new set of standards, which were closely modeled after national guidelines developed by a consortium of states and science organizations and included information on climate change, Last year, the House education committee accepted the new standards, but only after Here’s what you need to know about the latest climate change news this week:“The committee took a true course between the rocks on one side and the whirlpool on the other,” Mr. Cook said, describing how it had been difficult to strike a balance between language that was scientifically accurate but was satisfying to lawmakers. Gov. Teachers and students testified for it to be reinstated. Now, It’s a Battle. Climate can mean the average weather for a particular region and time period taken over 30 years. Taylor said he was not worried about his own district. Still, he said he hoped the revised standards would be approved.While Idaho teachers can still choose to include climate change in their lesson plans — and many do in places like Boise, the state’s capital and biggest city — science educators said they were concerned for teachers in districts where climate change was considered more controversial. “They will do what the state says.”Even in Boise, “When you teach environmental science, you’re constantly being discredited,” said Erin Stutzman, a science teacher at Timberline High School in the capital, which, along with other schools nationally, has been “If the community opposes it or thinks it’s some kind of propaganda, it puts those children coming out of those districts at a major disadvantage,” Ms. Stutzman said. Without state standards, those teachers might choose not to teach climate change at all, said Christopher Taylor, the science supervisor for the Boise School District.Mr. July is the hottest month for Idaho with an average high temperature of 85.4°, which ranks it as about average compared to other states. But only in Idaho has the state legislature stripped all mentions of human-caused climate change from statewide science guidelines while leaving the rest of the standards intact.Now teachers, parents and students are pushing back, hoping to convince the Republican-controlled Idaho Legislature to approve revised standards, which science proponents say are watered down but would still represent a victory for climate-change education in the state. The Idaho House education committee could vote as soon as Wednesday on whether to allow the revised language into the state’s curriculum.“We’re hopeful that we can put a final bow on this,” said Scott Cook, the director of academics at the Idaho State Department of Education, who helps lead a committee of teachers, parents and scientists urging that climate change be included in the standards.The battle started in early 2016, when Idaho was working to update its decade-old science standards for kindergarten through 12th grade, which outside education groups said were out of date.