Despite the $56 million shortfall, the Mayor is still calling for a budget that prioritizes policing as a strategy to criminalize, unhouse, and gentrify our community while lining the pockets of housing and tech developers to create a San Jose that belongs to the wealthy. It is a budget that deems those of us who have built San Jose for generations as expendable.
A newly published Santa Clara County Grand Jury report echoed what students and community advocates have been saying for years about the San Jose Unified School District. The report confirms sustained failures in leadership.
