Broker Cooperation: For generations, real estate agents...

Broker Cooperation: For generations, real estate agents sold homes based on the quality of local schools, so it’s a fair turnabout for a school to sell itself to them. Cleveland High in Reseda hosted more than 25 local brokers Thursday. Under open-enrollment policies, schools must market themselves, said Principal Eileen Banta, who wants more than her current 2,000 students. . . . Realtors saw the swimming pool, sports teams and the humanities magnet program.

Ducks: No Parking: This much we know: Many of the 100 or so ducks who lived on ponds at Prudential HealthCare in Woodland Hills are gone, taken to an animal shelter. Prudential said it was for their own good, saving them from all that pollution and traffic. . . . But according to an internal company memo and Prudential duck fans, the quackers (B1) were evicted to make room for more parking.

No Worry Beads: Legal questions you hadn’t anticipated: Is the L.A. city seal unconstitutional? The U.S. Supreme Court just declared that a cross in another city’s seal breaches the separation of church and state. No cross here, but we do have a ring of rosary beads, harking to the city’s founding in the era of the Spanish missions, like San Fernando’s. . . . Local officials are unfazed. “I don’t think anybody knows it’s a rosary,” said Assistant City Atty. Marcia Kamine. “It looks like a bunch of grapes.” Better yet, Kamine says, the city could defend it on historical grounds.

Grad Party: Mortarboard fever is rampant at the D’Balcazar household in Pacoima. . . . On Thursday, 15-year-old Monique D’Balcazar picked up her associate of arts degree from Valley College. Among 700 fellow graduates was her mother, Jo-ana. . . . Both go on together to Cal State Northridge this fall.