Thank you for posting this. I think California is starting to wake up to this issue as well.
From my POV its site admin don't want to invest the money because the district isn't asking them to. The district isn't asking them to because they don't want to invest the money since the state isn't asking them to. And so on.
But they'll spend $3.5M on artificial turf fields as an investment... in what, I'm not sure. (
School's get shiny new fields)