[PCA] For environmental education for children

[MaryannWhitman]

ACTION ALERT

November 8, 2007

 

We need your help immediately! The House Education and Labor Committee is
expected to make final decisions next week, either accepting or rejecting
the No Child Left Inside Act, with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions Committee also moving swiftly.  We need your help NOW in contacting
your senators and representatives to get their support for the No Child Left
Inside Act. 

 

The No Child Left Inside Act is an historic step towards ensuring that the
next generation of graduates from the nation's schools will be
environmentally literate.  Please contact your federal representatives
immediately to let them know you care about our environment, our schools,
and our children's health.

 

The No Child Left Behind reauthorization bill is currently being written in
the Senate and House committees. A long list of co-sponsors of the NCLI Act
will indicate strong support for including the NCLI Act's language in the
NCLB bills.

 

Please contact your representative and senators immediately to ask that they
co-sponsor the No Child Left Inside Act. Each email, fax, and phone call
counts!

1.      Fax or e-mail a letter urging your senators and representative to
co-sponsor the No Child Left Inside Act of 2007 (S.1981, H.R.3036). 

2.      Go to http://www.eenclb.org <http://www.eenclb.org/>   and click on
Contact Your Congressperson to email a letter. 

3.      To find fax numbers, go to
<http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt>
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt .

4.      After sending your e-mail or fax, call your senators' and
representative's offices and ask to speak to the education staff person.
Tell him or her how important it is that the senator or representative
co-sponsor the No Child Left Inside Act and support its inclusion in the No
Child Left Behind bill.  

5.      Send this action alert to your friends, family, and colleagues and
ask them to contact their senators and representative.

 

If you believe that children should be spending more time outside, learning
and playing, be better prepared to address increasingly complex
environmental issues, and that the nation's public schools have a critical
role ensuring that both of these goals are met, then contact your federal
legislators immediately! Thank you!

 

Note: "No Child Left InsideSM" is used with permission from the Connecticut
Department of Environmental Protection.

 

 

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