Salazar Elementary receives new playground, trees and mural as part of ‘Cool School’ program
Six schools in Dallas received outdoor upgrades including a new playground, loop trail, outdoor classroom, art mural and up to 100 newly planted trees.
Exterior view of the Dallas ISD Administration Building on Monday, April 6, 2020, in Dallas.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
Oak Cliff’s Salazar Elementary is one of six Dallas schools that has received outdoor upgrades.
As part of its Cool Schools program, Texas Trees Foundation partnered with Dallas ISD, Dallas Parks and Recreation and other organizations to build new community outdoor spaces at six elementary schools located in the nonprofit’s designated Cool School neighborhoods.
/PRNewswire/ Texas Trees Foundation, in partnership with the Dallas Independent School District, Dallas Parks and Recreation, Trust for Public Land, 29.
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In 2012, Brenda Delgado spoke at her first Chicago Board of Education meeting. A parent of a child who attended Salazar Elementary, which was at risk of being closed, Delgado was “passionately crying,” urging board members to keep her child’s school open.
Board members were doodling in their notebooks, said Delgado, of Washington Park. She is one of many Black and Brown families with children in CPS advocating for a fully elected school board, which is now appointed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
More than a dozen community organizers are calling on Illinois Senate President Don Harmon to allow that chamber to vote on a bill that would allow Chicago residents to elect their school board, which is what happens in the more than 800 other school districts across the state.