No Child Left Inside Action Alert

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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 Congressional representative and senators today to let them know you care about our environment, our schools, and our children's health.

w        Should children be spending more time outside, learning and playing?

w        Should children be better prepared to address increasingly complex environmental issues?

w        Should the nation's public schools have a critical role ensuring that both of these goals are met?

The No Child Left Inside Act of 2007 will help make these things happen, improving children's health and contributing to a healthier, more sustainable society. You can support this bi-partisan effort by contacting your federal legislators immediately and asking them to co-sponsor the No Child Left Inside Act (H.R.3036 sponsored by Rep. John Sarbanes and S.1981 sponsored by Sen. Jack Reed). Doing so will send a signal to Congress to include the Act's language in the No Child Left Behind law.

Please contact your representative and senators immediately to ask that they co-sponsor this important legislation. If your representative or senators have already co-sponsored H.R.3036 or S.1981, thank him or her for supporting environmental education in public schools. The time to contact Congress is now!

Help us guarantee that no student is left inside when it comes to learning about his or her environment.

1.       Fax or e-mail a letter urging your federal legislators to co-sponsor the No Child Left Inside Act of 2007 (H.R.3036 or S.1981). Look up your legislators' fax numbers at www.congress.org. For easy tools to e-mail a letter, go to www.eenclb.org.

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

3.       Send this action alert to your friends, family, colleagues and professional networks - ask them to contact their representative and senators.

The No Child Left Inside Act of 2007 amends the No Child Left Behind law in the following ways:

• Provides federal funding to states to train teachers in environmental education and to operate model environmental education programs, which include outdoor learning.
• Provides funding to states that create environmental literacy plans to ensure that high school graduates are environmentally literate.
• Provides funding through an environmental education grant program to build state and national capacity.

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, contact your federal legislators immediately!

Thank you for taking action to support environmental education!

Please copy and paste a link to this web page [ No Child Left Inside Action Alert ] into the body of an e-mail to send to your family, friends, colleagues and professional networks.