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Schools are at the heart of our communities — and critical to California’s ambitious environmental and climate goals. Especially as climate impacts such as extreme heat, flooding, and wildfires intensify.

Commitments to climate-ready facilities, environmental curriculum, green career pathways, and more have grown into a statewide movement. This led us to ask: How are districts making progress on those commitments?

This summary report highlights data and analysis across three critical areas — facilities, staffing, and funding — to reveal where our state is making progress and where gaps remain.

This initiative and companion report provide educational leaders with interactive tools to visualize data on scale, equity, context, and progress in environmental and climate action across campus, curriculum, community, and culture. It supports data-informed decisions to advance climate action in California’s TK–12 schools.

Read the Executive Summary.

This project examines how investing in dedicated environmental staff influences a school district’s ability to drive and sustain environmental and climate action initiatives across facilities, curriculum, and school culture. The analysis will provide insights for state and local decision-makers on the importance of staff capacity in advancing and sustaining environmental and climate action in schools.