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Photo gallery: Making strides for education on International Walk to School Day

By Doug Strickland October 4, 2017 1 min read

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Photo gallery: Making strides for education on International Walk to School Day

Brown Elementary students walk on the University Greenway from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Challenger Center to school on East Eighth Street for International Walk to School Day on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Ten area schools have organized walk to school events this week in partnership with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County and North Georgia Transportation Planning Organizations.

Brown Elementary student Chaise Tillman ties his shoe as he walks with other students from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Challenger Center to school on East Eighth Street for International Walk to School Day on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Ten area schools have organized walk to school events this week in partnership with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County and North Georgia Transportation Planning Organizations.

Chattanooga police Officer Eddie Mansell blocks Vine Street as Brown Elementary students walk from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Challenger Center to school on East Eighth Street for International Walk to School Day on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Ten area schools have organized walk to school events this week in partnership with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County and North Georgia Transportation Planning Organizations.

Brown Elementary students embrace as they walk from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Challenger Center to school on East Eighth Street for International Walk to School Day on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Ten area schools have organized walk to school events this week in partnership with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County and North Georgia Transportation Planning Organizations.

Brown Elementary students cross East Fifth Street as they walk from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Challenger Center to school on East Eighth Street for International Walk to School Day on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Ten area schools have organized walk to school events this week in partnership with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County and North Georgia Transportation Planning Organizations.

Brown Elementary students walk from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Challenger Center to school on East Eighth Street for International Walk to School Day on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Ten area schools have organized walk to school events this week in partnership with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County and North Georgia Transportation Planning Organizations.

Brown Elementary students wait to walk from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Challenger Center to school on East Eighth Street for International Walk to School Day on Tuesday, October. 3, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Ten area schools have organized walk to school events this week in partnership with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County and North Georgia Transportation Planning Organizations.

Ten area schools have organized walk to school events this week in partnership with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County and North Georgia Transportation Planning Organizations.

International Walk to School Day was Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017.