Marietta, GA - Park Street Elementary School has earned Green School status for its participation in the Cobb County Green School Initiative. The school is actively working on earning Green School Gold status.

“We initially launched our Green School initiative in grades 3-5 with our Amazon Interactive grant,” said Park Street Principal, Corey Lawson. “We currently have project service learning activities occurring in all our second grade classes, some in our first grade, and a few in our Kindergarten classes. This honor is complementary to our community collaborative theme.”

The Green School Initiative is a program of the Cobb County Water System Watershed Education and Water Efficiency Programs, Cobb County Parks and Recreation Natural Resources Unit, and Cobb County Solid Waste Keep Cobb Beautiful Program. The purpose of the Green School Initiative is to recognize schools in Cobb County with an active environmental education program and encourage other schools to develop environmentally based education initiatives within their schools.

The Green School Initiative is open to all public and private schools in Cobb County, grades K-12. To qualify as a Green Classroom a teacher must complete five environmentally based lesson plans per year.