The East Side Union High School District is facing signficant cuts. Parents and teachers and community leaders showed up to protest. That's not unusual. That's what's been happening in many/all school districts -- but not all school districts get a negative audit from the County Office of Education that criticizes how they spend money... and not all school districts fire their superintendent... and not all school districts appoint members to their board twice, even though voters said no to the twice-appointed member...
Gilroy Unified is also in pink-slip mode...
While East Side Union and Gilroy Unified would have a more difficult time doing the same thing, Cupertino Union parents are fundraising to save 100 teachers' jobs...
Meg Whitman spoke to a group from the Great Silicon Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce yesterday at Santana Row. (Which is the strangest part of that sentence? Meg Whitman speaking to the Hispanic Chamber or the fact that it was at Santana Row?)
Mountain View has something called the "Shoreline Community" fund, which seems to act kind of like a Redevelopment Agency for the Shoreline area in Mountain View. The problem with that is school districts sometimes get screwed in Redevelopment Areas -- and in the Shoreline Community area that seems to be the case. Essentially, the Mountain View-Whisman Elementary School District would like to get a bigger piece of Google's property tax. Unsurprisingly, not everyone on the Mountain View City Council likes the idea of sharing that tax money...
The League of California Cities is trying to get a measure on the November ballot to stop (again) the State from stealing local money to balance the State budget. But (unbelievably) two folks on the Saratoga City Council don't support it... Kathleen King and Jill Hunter. It seems King and Hunter don't want the County to get screwed even if Saratoga does ok under the measure. We wonder why Kathleen King is so concerned about the County... hmmmm...
With the old Mervyn's out of their Campbell store on Hamilton Avenue, Safeway is looking to build a cool new store.
Speaking of stores... What's the one thing folks in Milpitas need more than anything? How about an even bigger Walmart?
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