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New Federal Education Law Promotes Environmental Education

January 20, 2016

President Obama's overhauled federal education law, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, includes money for environmental education. This is the first time a federal education bill recognizes environmental literacy programs as part of a child's "well-rounded" education. We explain what this means for Rhode Island….

… Knowlton said the new law's inclusion of environmental education is the result of a movement known as No Child Left Inside. Sen. Jack Reed and Rep. John Sarbanes of Maryland introduced a bill by that name. Now parts of that bill are included within the new overhauled education law.