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With spring fever spreading through classrooms across the country, the Education Department of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) knows that the best way of capturing those wandering minds is to take students away from their desks and into the great outdoors. Through innovative education programs such as the national Teens for Planet Earth and partnerships with local schools in New York City’s underserved neighborhoods such as the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, WCS seeks to foster a connection to nature and a sense of responsibility for the environment in the next generation. Our programs focus on community-based environmental service-learning projects and bring students to the WCS Zoos and Aquarium for hands-on science study and opportunities to meet role models in wildlife conservation professions.

As the U.S. celebrates National Environmental Education week, April 13–19, WCS is urging members of Congress to cosponsor the No Child Left Inside Act (NCLI). This bill would expand the No Child Left Behind program to include environmental education. In the face of school budget cuts in science instruction, nature-based field trips, and other meaningful outdoor activities for students, NCLI would help reverse this trend.

You can ask your elected officials to support NCLI by visiting our Take Action page.

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