Unfortunately, only one staff person is assigned to implement the plan, which itself is not funded. However in addition to implementing this plan, the environmental education consultant is required to provide inservice training for a number of programs, as well as periodic outside requirements not related to environmental education. The guidelines contained in the plan are simply guidelines and carry no force if not implemented. Lack of a Formally Adopted and Funded Plan . In short, Kentucky's formal environmental education programs at present are without a guiding focus from state government.
State agencies develop and disseminate new environmental education programs almost annually.
However, without a formal definition of environmental literacy, and an agreed upon plan for the roles and responsibilities of state agencies in achieving environmental literacy, the individual teacher or interested adult must weave his or her way through an assortment of offerings that may or may not meet the need. An Environmentally Literate Kentucky much has happened. As a result of this report, the Environmental Quality Commission convened a special task force to study the issue. This task force developed a series of recommendations including one to introduce legislation to develop an environmental education council. The council was officially created in 1990 and was administratively placed in the Education and the Humanities Cabinet.