{"id":8511,"date":"2016-09-12T17:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T21:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/?p=8511"},"modified":"2016-09-12T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T21:46:24","slug":"4th-graders-and-their-families-can-access-state-parks-federal-sites-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/2016\/09\/12\/4th-graders-and-their-families-can-access-state-parks-federal-sites-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Parks will honor Every Kid in a Park passes for the 2016-2017 school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Governor Hogan announced that all 72 Maryland State Parks would honor the Federal <strong><em>Every Kid in a Park<\/em> <\/strong>pass.\u00a0 Fourth graders and their families can access State Parks, as well as Federal sites, for <strong>FREE<\/strong>! Passes for the 2016-17 school year go live on September 1. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everykidinapark.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.everykidinapark.gov\/<\/a> \u00a0to obtain a pass and find Federal parks to visit, for both families accompanying individual 4th graders as well as for field trip experiences for 4th grade classes. \u00a0The pass grants entry for the student and three accompanying adults &#8212; or an entire car for drive-in parks &#8212; at more than 2,000 national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and marine sanctuaries.\u00a0 The website also offers educators and parents activities, trip planning books, safety and packing tips, and other helpful information.<\/p>\n<p>To find Maryland State Parks, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/parkmap.aspx\">http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/parkmap.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please share this information widely to help teachers and parents to get passes for their 4th graders.<\/p>\n<p><em>This message is reprinted from the Weekly Transmittal for Maryland Local School System Superintendents (D. Lichter, personal communication, September 2, 2016).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Governor Hogan announced that all 72 Maryland State Parks would honor the Federal Every Kid in a Park pass.\u00a0 Fourth graders and their families can access State Parks, as well as Federal sites, for FREE! Passes for the 2016-17 school year go live on September 1. Visit https:\/\/www.everykidinapark.gov\/ \u00a0to obtain a pass and find Federal parks to visit, for both families accompanying individual 4th graders as well as for field trip experiences for 4th grade classes. \u00a0The pass grants entry for the student and three accompanying adults &#8212; or an entire car for drive-in parks &#8212; at more than 2,000 national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and marine sanctuaries.\u00a0 The website also offers educators and parents activities, trip planning books, safety and packing tips, and other helpful information. To find Maryland State Parks, go to: http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/parkmap.aspx. Please share this information widely to help teachers and parents to get passes for their 4th graders. This message is reprinted from the Weekly Transmittal for Maryland Local School System Superintendents (D. Lichter, personal communication, September 2, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8513,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions\/8513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}