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Clark Magnet Teacher Earns Environmental Education Award

Dominique Evans-Bye is one of 11 teachers to win the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators.

Dominique Evans-Bye, a biology teacher at Clark Magnet High School, recently won the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators for her research work as well teaching students about sustainability, according to a story in the Glendale News-Press. 

Among the sustainability projects she supervised for her students was an October trip to Ojai to check out camps that were formerly the grounds for illegal marijuana-growing operations. The students found spent pesticide containers and  fertilizer that had found its way into a stream bed, the News-Press reports.

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