{"id":64584,"date":"2026-03-28T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/special-education-cuts-could-strain-teachers-in-santa-clara-county\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:30:04","slug":"special-education-cuts-could-strain-teachers-in-santa-clara-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/special-education-cuts-could-strain-teachers-in-santa-clara-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Special education cuts could strain teachers in Santa Clara County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special education teachers in Santa Clara County are at a tipping point following a recent round of layoffs \u2014 on top of massive cuts last year that left educators managing larger classes of students with serious medical and behavioral needs. Due to declining enrollment, the Santa Clara County Office of Education plans to cut eight classes for preschoolers, the \u201cmedically fragile\u201d and other special education students across six schools in the upcoming 2026-27 school year. That translates to about 31 layoffs, according to union leaders. Sources who spoke to San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight on condition of anonymity said the number could&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/special-education-cuts-could-strain-teachers-in-santa-clara-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special education teachers in Santa Clara County are at a tipping point following a recent round of layoffs \u2014 on top of massive cuts last year that left educators managing larger classes of students with serious medical and behavioral needs. Due to declining enrollment, the Santa Clara County Office of Education plans to cut eight &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64585,"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-64584","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\/64584","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=64584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}