LAUSD approved a $13 billion-dollar operating budget that includes $58 million to go towards outdoor education initiatives, as well as adding more green space to schoolyards.
“The big elephant in the room is climate change, and we know that we're getting hotter,” said Mark, whose kids attend Eagle Rock Elementary. “My kids have had to stay inside the classroom or inside the gym on really hot days because it's not healthy for them to be outside. If we created places that were cooler, shaded environments, kids could go outside even on the hottest days.”— especially in areas that are already overburdened by pollution and the urban heat island effect.
Due to decades of racist policies, those areas tend to primarily be home to Latino and Black communities with low incomes, Mark said, which is why investing in those areas first is essential.“LAUSD has some green schoolyards, but they are too few and far between,” Mark said. “We don't want to continue doing this work at a piecemeal rate if we're going to really get closer to equity…we need to scale up the efforts.”to green your campuses.
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