{"id":53127,"date":"2024-10-02T17:14:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T00:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/silicon-valley-candidate-says-powerful-state-union-pressured-her-to-quit\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T17:14:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T00:14:31","slug":"silicon-valley-candidate-says-powerful-state-union-pressured-her-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/silicon-valley-candidate-says-powerful-state-union-pressured-her-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley candidate says powerful state union pressured her to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of California\u2019s largest teachers union alleges the group pressured her to drop out of a local school board race. Jyl Lutes, a former teacher and Salinas councilmember who now lives in Campbell, said California Teachers Association representatives called her several times in June urging her to quit\u00a0the race for the Trustee Area 3 seat on the Santa Clara County Board of Education. The union, which represents 310,000 teachers statewide,\u00a0is backing current trustee Don Rocha, a former San Jose councilmember and the only other candidate in the race. \u201cI got several phone calls from them telling me, \u2018Just&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/silicon-valley-school-board-education-candidate-says-powerful-state-california-teachers-union-pressured-her-to-quit-election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of California\u2019s largest teachers union alleges the group pressured her to drop out of a local school board race. Jyl Lutes, a former teacher and Salinas councilmember who now lives in Campbell, said California Teachers Association representatives called her several times in June urging her to quit\u00a0the race for the Trustee Area &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":53128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}