LAUSD

Green Schools for All Plan, 2023

LAUSD Green Schools Index

Proposal for an Office of Climate Resilience, Health, and Equity, School Board Member Jackie Goldberg, 2022

Letter to LAUSD School Board Members, September 22nd, 2022

CLIMATE RESILIENCE

Heat Fact Sheet, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, 2022

LAUSD Living Schoolyards Program Pilot Study, TreePeople, Safe Clean Water Funding, 2020

The Power of Schools: Unlocking Collaborative Solutions to Water Challenges in the Los Angeles Region, TreePeople, 2015

ORGANIZING

UTLA Climate Justice Demands, 2022

LA Living Schoolyards Coalition, 2022

DESIGN

Green Schoolyard District Design Guidelines, Children and Nature Network, 2022

San Francisco Nature Exploration Area Playbook Design Guide, 2021

Greening schoolyards - An urban resilience perspective, 2020

California Department of Education Guide to School Site Analysis and Development, 2000

The Risk in Play and Learning Declaration

Impact of urban schoolyard play zone diversity and nature-based design features on unstructured recess play behaviors, November 2022

California Green Schoolyards A Cost-benefit Study, Trust for Public Land, 2022

Recess Behaviors of Urban Children 16 Months After a Green Schoolyard Renovation, Human Kinetics Journals, 2021

Physical Activity and Social Behaviors of Urban Children in Green Playgrounds, American Journal of Preventative Medicine, February 2019

Parent Power and Green Schools, Highlands Council PTA, DEI Speaker Series, September 20th, 2022

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What Does Green mean for LAUSD?, Medium, October 7th, 2022

Los Angeles School Board Promises More Green Space, Shade For More Schools, LAIST, September 28th, 2022

State boosts funding for school greening projects to replace hot shadeless playgrounds, LA Daily News, September 8th, 2022

Heat wave: Parents demand LAUSD provide more green space, shade on school playgrounds, FOX 11 Angeles, September 7th, 2022

Parents Demand LAUSD Provide More Green Space, Shade at School Playgrounds, KFI AM 640, September 7th, 2022

LAUSD parents’ growing effort to bring shade to hot school playgrounds, LA Daily News, September 7th, 2022

Parents at Boyle Heights rally criticize LAUSD for response to heat wave, lack of green space, KTLA, September 7th, 2022

Hot, angry parents continue to hammer LAUSD for shade and even cool water for kids, LATIMES, September 7th, 2022

The push for greener schools: How community groups are fighting extreme heat inequities, ABC7, September 2nd, 2022

When the Playground Slide Reaches 122 Degrees, CURBED, September 2nd, 2022

Playground asphalt sizzles to 145 degrees in extreme heat waves. Parents demand school shade, LATIMES, September 1st, 2022

LAUSD parents call for changes to school playgrounds amid scorching temperatures, CBS Los Angeles, August 18th, 2022

Commentary: L.A.’s asphalt-covered schoolyards are an environmental injustice, LATIMES, March 27th, 2022

Plan to Transform Bleak Playground Hits a Big Snag, LATIMES, October 26th, 2013