§ 8705 Environmental Education Responsibility

Education Code·California

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•Schools should teach kids to care about nature and the environment.
•Kids should learn how to make good choices to protect the environment.
•Lessons should give kids the knowledge and skills to help with environmental problems.

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A school teaches kids about recycling and how to reduce waste.

This law says schools should help kids understand why recycling is important and how they can do it. Kids learn to take care of the environment by doing things like recycling instead of throwing everything in the trash.

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§ 8705 Environmental Education Responsibility

The Legislature further finds and declares that conservation education should be a means of achieving an educational philosophy that will help each student develop a healthy attitude of personal responsibility toward his environment and its resources and provide him with the concepts, the knowledge, and the skills needed to contribute meaningfully to the decisionmaking process on issues involving the environment and its resources. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

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Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Education Code. Section 8705.

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