Allie Schneider (she/her) (@allie-schneider.bsky.social)

Little school on the prairie: How keeping school land wild can combat climate change HOUSTON — When Jefferson Early Learning Center first opened on the corner of a busy intersection in the city’s west side in 2022, school officials started receiving calls from irritated residents. It wasn’t the increase in traffic or the noise from loud preschoolers that was the source of the callers’ ire. It was the wild, unkempt landscaping. Residents wanted to know, “‘Why aren’t you cutting the lawn?’ ‘Why aren’t you keeping the grounds?’” recalled Hilda Rodriguez, the assistant superintendent of support services for the Alief Independent School District, home to Jefferson and nearly 50 other schools west of Houston. https://hechingerreport.org/little-school-on-the-prairie-how-keeping-school-land-wild-can-combat-climate-change/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social