; (B) addressing the global and local environmental issues that are disproportionately affecting people of color; and (C) fostering a critical understanding of the environment within the context of human political and social actions. (2) Environmental justice education lends itself to the field of service learning with the call to move beyond the classroom and experience the earth in an experiential, embodied way which empowers students to confront global environmental justice. (3) States and local educational agencies should create an integrated curriculum in which environmental justice education is incorporated throughout subject areas such as math, science, history, language arts, and all other core subject areas. (4) Environmental justice education uses multiple strategies including experiential learning, integrated core subject study, analytical research, and project based learning. 50703. Grants authorized (a) In general The Secretary of Education shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, make grants on a competitive basis under this subtitle to States and to local educational agencies that submit to the Secretary an application at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may require. The purpose of the grants is to assist eligible recipients to develop an environmental justice curriculum, and a co-op program, for students attending middle and high schools that— (1) receive funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 29 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.)