FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/FOX24) — Since the implementation of the LEARNS Act, which requires future graduates to accrue at least 75 documented community service hours before graduation, Keep Arkansas Beautiful has started offering new service-learning opportunities to help students earn those hours.Keep Arkansas Beautiful is part of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, and encourages community members to keep their hometowns clean and maintain the environment in the state.
Fayetteville teacher to be a part of deep-sea exploration voyage"We've always offered hours for our cleanups, but this is the first time that we have expanded and these projects in a specific manner to promote service learning opportunities for students," said McKenzie McMath Coronel, Executive Director of KAB, "We're trying to fill that need that the learns act has created so that parents, teachers, students have an idea of where to go."These new projects include graffiti cleanups, planting wildflowers to increase pollinator health, litter abatement, and more. These service-learning opportunities will be available to students across the state.
"Long term, Keep Arkansas Beautiful hopes to instill the values of caring for your environment and giving back to your state," said Coronel, "To really learn to care for and preserve, restore and beautify our state and our environment, that is something that we hope to instill in these students so that they carry that forward as lifelong advocates .
