Most LAUSD campuses have few tree canopies where students play. Parents want to change that

Summary by The Los Angeles Editorial Desk · Byline on the source page: Mallika Seshadri | EdSource, as published by LAist (KPCC / Southern California Public Radio) · October 13, 2026 · 1 min read

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(Mallika Seshadri / EdSource) In 2009, a group of 25 students at Eagle Rock Elementary were asked by students at Cal Poly Pomona to draw their dream campus. Nearly all sketched schools with trees, farms and ponds. The college students took the children’s ideas and drew up a plan that eventually h...

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