{"id":1529,"date":"2014-10-07T09:22:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2015-12-17T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:32:51","slug":"u-s-department-of-educations-green-strides-tour-concludes-in-maryland-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/u-s-department-of-educations-green-strides-tour-concludes-in-maryland-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Department Of Education&#8217;s Green Strides Tour Concludes In Maryland On Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Three Exemplary Schools On Itinerary<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<\/p>\n<p>Senior federal officials will join State and local leaders tomorrow at schools in Anne Arundel, Howard, and Montgomery Counties, as the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Green Strides \u201cHealthy Schools-High Achieving Students\u201d Tour concludes with a visit to Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>The tour stops will focus on the three pillars of the Green Ribbon Schools program: conservation of energy and water, healthy schools and grounds, and environmental literacy and sustainability.\u00a0 Officials speak with educators and students, as well as tour facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Senior officials from the White House, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will join U.S. Department of Education staff on the visits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:<\/strong> Federal officials<br \/>\nState Superintendent of Schools Lillian M. Lowery (at the Dunloggin Visit)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong>\u00a0Second Annual U.S. Department of Education \u201cGreen Strides\u201d Tour<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:\u00a09:30 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m., Wednesday, October 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:\u00a0<\/strong>9:30 a.m. \u2013 Folger McKinsey Elementary School, 175 Beach Road, Severna Park, MD<\/p>\n<p>11:30 a.m. \u2013 Dunloggin Middle School, 9129 Northfield Road, Ellicott City, MD<\/p>\n<p>1 p.m. \u2013 Listening Session at Robinson Nature Center, 6692 Cedar Lane, Columbia, MD<\/p>\n<p>3 p.m. \u2013 Francis Scott Key Middle School, 910 Schindler Drive, Silver Spring, MD<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Exemplary Schools On Itinerary<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<br \/>\nSenior federal officials will join State and local leaders tomorrow at schools in Anne <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/u-s-department-of-educations-green-strides-tour-concludes-in-maryland-on-wednesday\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}