 Of the 501 public school districts in Pennsylvania, 447 of them received Classrooms for the Future grant awards.The Environmental Education Grant Program was established by the Environmental Education Act of 1993, which mandates that 5 percent of all pollution fines and penalties collected annually by the Department of Environmental Protection be set aside for environmental education.In 2010, Ephrata Area School District was awarded $3000 to purchase air quality monitoring equipment and education resources to conduct ozone level studies for the chemistry and environmental science classes.