"Nurturing Students with Nature"
The National Park Service turns 100 on August 25, 2016 !
Please help us raise $2000.00 to provide transportation for 300 students in underserved communities in Los Angeles, an opportunity to explore, discover and raise awareness about the value and sacredness of nature and open spaces.
The exploration is "hands on" and fosters deep, emotional and intellectual connections that bring classroom curriculum to life.
About California Safe Schools:
California Safe Schools (CSS) is a nationally and internationally celebrated children's environmental
health and environmental justice coalition
California Safe Schools successfully spearheaded the most stringent school pesticide policy in the nation, called Integrated Pest Management (IPM), at the Los Angeles Unified School District. IPM uses low risk methods to eradicate insects, weeds and other pests, eliminating a major source of indoor and outdoor pollution.
This groundbreaking policy was the first in the United States to embrace the "Precautionary Principle" and "Right to Know" about pesticides used on school campuses. The success of the Los Angeles Unified policy led to California Legislation, Healthy Schools Act 2000.
On October 6, 2005, Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 405 (Montanez) sponsored by California Safe Schools. This important law closes a loophole thus protecting more than 6 million California k-12 public school students, and hundreds of thousands of teachers and school employees from exposure to experimental pesticides whose health effects are unknown.
CSS has worked extensively on local and national School Siting Guidelines and under Robina Suwol's leadership, has facilitated changes at the policy level as well as at the grassroots which creates a lasting institutional protection.
"For more than eighteen years, California Safe Schools has led groundbreaking efforts to ensure that school children and the public have a right not to be poisoned, a right to learn, work and live in a healthful environment. When we work together great things can and do happen", added Executive Director of CSS, Robina Suwol.
www.calisafe.org