Alaska Statutes 14.30.380 – Environmental education
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 14.30.380
- board: means the state Board of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
- school board: means the school board of a borough or city school district or a regional educational attendance area. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
- state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
The board shall encourage each school board to initiate and conduct a program of environmental education for kindergarten through grade 12. The program should include, but is not limited to, education regarding the need to balance resource development with environmental safeguards, the dependence of the state on resource development, and the opportunity for pollution prevention, waste reduction, and recycling. A school board may implement environmental education as a part of regular classroom studies.