{"id":56424,"date":"2025-05-01T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/santa-clara-county-education-layoffs-unfounded-state-lawmakers-say\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:30:13","slug":"santa-clara-county-education-layoffs-unfounded-state-lawmakers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/santa-clara-county-education-layoffs-unfounded-state-lawmakers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County education layoffs unfounded, state lawmakers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of state lawmakers and Silicon Valley leaders are calling on the Santa Clara County Office of Education\u00a0to reverse the layoffs of hundreds of teachers serving low-income preschoolers, migrants and special education students. The Monday letter \u2014 signed by state Sen. Dave Cortese and Assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Patrick Ahrens \u2014 questions the layoffs of as many as 300 full-time positions while accusing the county Board of Education of overspending on insurance, consulting and attorney fees. The board\u2019s majority approved paying millions of dollars to three outside law firms as they tried to defend their controversial decision last year&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/santa-clara-county-education-layoffs-unfounded-state-lawmakers-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of state lawmakers and Silicon Valley leaders are calling on the Santa Clara County Office of Education\u00a0to reverse the layoffs of hundreds of teachers serving low-income preschoolers, migrants and special education students. The Monday letter \u2014 signed by state Sen. Dave Cortese and Assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Patrick Ahrens \u2014 questions the layoffs &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56424","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}