In the near future, this test will be administered to fourth, seventh, and tenth grade students. This document mandates cooperative environmental education activities between DEP and PDE, established an EE advisory board, and provides for a grant program to facilitate EE activities. Noteworthy is the diligent commitment many other state agencies and commissions have to educating about the environment. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' Bureau of State Parks, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, the Wild Resource Conservation Fund, and Pennsylvania's Conservation Districts either sponsor nationally recognized environmental education supplemental curricula or have developed their own Pennsylvania-specific educational materials. Other formal recognition and sources of inclusion for EE have been initiated by legislators in Pennsylvania, who repeatedly and increasingly are incorporating EE into environmentally related legislation.
Enlightened legislators understand that environmental decision making needs a cognitive base.
This has resulted in the inclusion of EE within various laws. Pennsylvania is receiving support for environmental education not only from within the state, but also at the national level. The Center is a partnership among 11 prominent Pennsylvania entities. Membership on the Center board includes the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Wild Resource Conservation Fund, Pennsylvania Alliance for Environmental Education, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, Department of Community and Economic Development, Department of Agriculture, Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, and State System of Higher Education. This unprecedented cooperative agreement was formed to ensure that the citizens of the Commonwealth have access to environmental education.