{"id":1003,"date":"2016-02-17T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:12:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T19:12:37","slug":"fairfax-schools-join-green-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Fairfax schools join green alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-1-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-1-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-1-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rory Witter, a first grader at Daniels Run Elementary, places a birdseed cake in a tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fairfax County Public Schools \u2014 already recognized nationally for its commitment to environmental education \u2014 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/fairfax-joins-other-large-school-systems-in-environmental-alliance\/2016\/02\/16\/2f4ba3a8-d4b4-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">united with some of the largest school districts in the country to support environmental sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the Green Schools Alliance District Collaborative with New York City, Chicago and other large school districts will help Fairfax obtain favorable prices for materials that advance conservation and environmental sustainability, school officials said. The group will also share ideas, attempt to influence policy and promote environmental education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/fairfax-joins-other-large-school-systems-in-environmental-alliance\/2016\/02\/16\/2f4ba3a8-d4b4-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, February 17, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairfax County Public Schools \u2014 already recognized nationally for its commitment to environmental education \u2014 has united with some of the largest school districts in the country to support environmental sustainability. Joining the Green Schools Alliance District Collaborative with New York City, Chicago and other large school districts will help Fairfax obtain favorable prices for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fairfax schools join green alliance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[154,155,107,16,124,6,83],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-centreville","tag-city-of-fairfax","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-fairfax-county","tag-schools","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}