These cuts put funding for many Geography for Life implementation projects at risk. Thus, the success or failure of Geography for Life will rest in individual local, and state hands. Mark the sections that are most applicable for you and your colleagues. Make copies of the document available to them. Peruse the section of the standards addressed to parents.
Parents play a very important role in the education of their children.
Support school programs that teach geography. Lobby community leaders, school teachers, and administrators on behalf of high standards in the teaching of geography. Realize that implementing the geography standards will be a challenge. It requires, as the distinguished geographer Truman Hartshorn points out, overcoming inertia and lobbying for fundamental systemic changes in education from kindergarten to the university. But the vision of a geographically informed populace, using geography to help solve their problems throughout their lives, is worth meeting the challenge.