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Find alternatives
to education layoffs
The Santa Clara County Education Bureau (SCCOE) offers layoffs for nearly 300 employees – approximately a quarter of its workforce – including early childhood educators, special educators and mental health advisers. These layoffs target those who work with our most vulnerable students.
The annual SCCOE budget exceeds $ 360 million, with a positive budgetary certification until 2027. A recent independent audit gave SCCOE the highest possible financial note.
However, while front -line workers are faced with layoffs, consulting expenses have doubled at $ 65 million and legal fees jumped in the millions without clear justification.
Other county offices faced with similar federal uncertainty have not emptied their programs, showing that stability and planning are possible. We must follow this example.
With a new superintendent arriving this week, it is now time to take a break and explore all possible alternatives. The layoffs proposed must be reversed and rejected to ensure that students, families and staff are supported.
Kathleen King, Tara Sreekrishnan and Claudia Rossi
Current and former members of the County School Board of Santa Clara
Public dissemination
The budget must be saved
The tax reductions which will benefit the billionaires do not justify the reductions of the national public media.
The small NPR and PBS amount receive American taxpayers, around $ 1.50 per resident, offers large advantages for its low cost. This is an example of each of us who contributes a small quantity and obtaining good quality, balanced, honest news and cultural relationships that benefit all. Public media reach places that do not have local radio and television. These are solid reports to the republican and democratic voices heard.
Personally, I only listen to public media. Commercial news is brief and noisy with advertisements. Over time, it is more and more profitable that it is filled with dishonest and provocative stories rather than putting out of factual news.
Mary Boyle
Sunnyvale
The treasure should share
Truth about prices
It is time that someone starts to tell the truth about who pays the prices. Note that the government does not lighten who pays the prices. If other countries paid most, the government would list the amounts by country and shout them on the roofs. But as American companies and consumers pay most, the administration will not show it.
The Treasury Department reports the daily statement of the Department of Total Deposits listed under “customs and certain excise taxes” on the Department’s fiscal web page. They could easily have shown the enormous amounts that Trump said that countries would pay, if it did not show embarrassing that citizens and American companies pay the lion’s share.
We must insist that the Treasury reports the source of the prices daily.
Barry Jackson
San Jose
Trump and his policies
are the definition of cruelty
On-off, on-off, suspended for a while-prices, expulsions, visas, etc., affecting students, judges, babies, small businesses, health care, medical research and colleges, to name only a few.
The first thing that comes to mind is the cruelty of the current administration. So I looked for the definition of a cruel person. Here is one: “Cruelian people may like to cause pain or sufferings to others, either physically or emotionally. They can use insults or lower language to decrease others and feel superior. They can be quick to anger and denigment others for mild or acts of evil.”
Do you remember someone?
Robert Feigelson
Saratoga
Russia has started
Path to the war of Ukraine
Re: “Ukraine War a road that we should not have taken” (page A6, April 29).
Regarding Mike Caggiano’s letter, I fully agree, assuming that “we” in this sentence means the Kremlin.
More specifically, Russia’s sneaky provocation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine from 2014, and their misleading interpretation of the two Minsk agreements to justify their illegal invasion are two roads that their government should never have taken. But they did it. Caggiano, however, seems confused that Ukraine was somehow obliged to “suspend any thought on adherence to NATO” under these agreements, which is false even in the most generous pro-Russian interpretation.
Scott Best
Palo Alto
Sexual assault requirements
immediate response
Re: “Bay Area Woman says that she was skewer in SFO flight” (page B1, April 29).
Parents, martial arts instructors and girls’ teachers should chat with girls and students about Barbara Morgan’s sexual assault on an airplane.
The assaulted person must “degenerate the situation” and report an incident immediately. The predators rely on silence. Defending yourself when attacked is justified.
Michael Gray
San Jose
California Daily Newspapers
