The kids at Crocker Riverside Elementary School will not have to risk burns or staph infections when playing on the lawn, thanks to parent pushback against the installation of artificial turf.
Sacramento City Unified School District announced Thursday that the field will be redesigned to include natural grass instead of artificial turf, as the district facilities department had initially planned.
The district was previously considering replacing the deteriorating field with artificial grass because of concerns about upkeep with an overcrowded school population. School officials said at the time that “if a sustainable natural grass solution were feasible, it would already be in place.”…