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Take Action Prior to August 16, 2010.
Your support is needed to ensure that all Maryland students learn about the environment by the time they graduate from high school. The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) has proposed an environmental literacy graduation requirement.
Environmentally literate students understand environmental and physical processes and systems, including human systems. They are students that possess the knowledge, intellectual skills, attitudes, experiences and motivation to make and act upon responsible environmental decisions as individuals and as members of their community
In order to make sure that the Environmental Literacy program is accepted it is crucial that the MSDE hear from as many people as possible with their support of the requirement. Please let MSDE know that:
- You strongly support an environmental literacy graduation requirement.
- You support passage of the proposed language in COMAR 13A.04.17, which describes environmental education instructional programming.
- You strongly encourage the addition of an environmental literacy graduation requirement to COMAR 13A.03.02: Graduation Requirements for Public High Schools in Maryland.
- You believe that environmental literacy is crucial for Maryland students and why.
Detailed information about the environmental education program being proposed and the environmental literacy graduation requirement is available at: Proposed Maryland Environmental Literacy Graduation Requirement: Key Questions & Answers.
Comments should be sent before August 16, 2010 to :
DixieStack
Director of Curriculum, Maryland State Department of Education
200 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Email:
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Fax: (410)333-2369
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