This is the originally submitted version of the proposed Resolution, but upon consultation with a Board member and staff, we were urged to cut it by a lot. So to keep our idea living in the community, we decided to share it here. Please feel free to comment on it in emails to our committee.

Whereas:

Each year more of our students are coughing, wheezing, sweating, nauseated, closed up in homes, even in schools due to heat and fossil fuel smog, often eating food without fresh sweet fruit, crunchy fresh greens and deliciously flavorful veggies, and sometimes even drinking water and playing in places that are polluted. Very possibly linked to all this, many have faced disproportionate COVID burden, caring for and burying family members and friends. On top of it all, families face housing bills and utility cutoffs that further threaten their well-being. The 90.4% of LAUSD students who are people of color, especially those in the schools that are designated Title I and further designated with the SENI 2.0 as high needs schools, live in areas historically redlined, consistently permitted for toxic industries, and neglected for greenspace and parks, which is confirmed by the high Pollution Burden Scores as seen in CalEnviroscreen.