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No Child Left InsideSM
Help Make EE Part of the Curriculum in our Schools
The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is up for reauthorization. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Congressman John Sarbanes of Maryland have introduced legislation, the No Child Left Inside Act of 2007, to include environmental education in the final version of NCLB.
The No Child Left Inside bill concentrates on funding and incentives for states to improve environmental education and does not add any new mandates or testing requirements. To learn more about the No Child Left Inside Act, visit .
Project Learning Tree believes that if NCLB remains the driving force for the content of K-12 curricula, teachers and school systems should be given greater authority, flexibility, and incentive to incorporate environmental education into core subjects, and help reconnect children with nature by taking them outdoors to learn.
PLT has been working with a No Child Left InsideSM Coalition of (As of April 2) 194 organizations, representing over 20 million people, to urge other members of Congress to support this legislation. To date, 42 House members, have signed on as co-sponsors to the bipartisan No Child Left Inside Act (H.R.3036) and 13 senators have co-sponsored the bill in the Senate (S.1981).
The time to act is now! Find out what you can do to make environmental education part of the curriculum in our schools.