Head Start and Interdistrict Transfers

The Wednesday, May 6, 2026, Santa Clara County Board of Education (SCCBOE) meeting will start at 5:00pm. Contemporaneous public comments may only be made in person in the San Jose Room of the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE). Community members can follow SCCBOE meetings at home by clinking on this link and scrolling down to the Watch Live heading. If you cannot attend in person, and have a comment that you would like the SCCBOE to consider in its decision making, please email all of us prior to the board meeting at SCCBOEMembers@sccoe.org. The entire agenda and supporting documentation for this coming week's meeting can be found here.

First up on the agenda, the SCCBOE will recognize SCCOE's Employee of the Month, Lydia Nunez. Lydia is a Child Care Resource and Referral Specialist in the Childcare Planning and Support Department and has been with the SCCOE for 7 years. In her role, Lydia supports the whole child by ensuring their families are connected with outside local services available to them and she does it with ease.

Next, the Board will hear Public Comments of Persons Desiring to Address the Board (for non-Agendized items), followed by Reports from SCCOE Bargaining Units (which include its teaching and staff unions, among others). For public comments, participants are given 2 minutes (at most) to address the Board, and the Board is not permitted to engage on the subject matter because it is not agendized.

Then, the Board will consider approving its Consent Action and Information Items. The consent part of an agenda generally includes non-controversial subject matters that can be approved all together if the Board all deems the items non-controversial and chooses not to pull any for discussion. For the SCCBOE, this part of the agenda typically includes minutes from the prior meeting, resolutions recognizing ethnic groups the county serves, specific educational initiatives, outside donations the county has received, disposition of surplus items, Head Start program reports, approval of board policy updates, and employee compensation increases over a certain threshold. This meeting's agenda includes a resolution recognizing Classified School Employee Week, along with Future Agenda Items. You can read more about all of them under agenda items 6 and 7.

Dr. Matt Wayne will next present the Head Start Monitoring Update. This is an information item and Dr, Wayne's presentation can be found under agenda item 8a. Nearly every year, Head Start (the federal agency) reviews/audits the SCCOE Head Start and Early Head Start programs. This year, during that review, Head Start found nine of twelve areas compliant, two areas of concern, and one area of non-compliance. One area of concern requires that the Policy Council and the Board receive balance sheets, cash flow statements, and income statements as part of the month financial documents we receive for the program. The team is already determining the best way to implement this going forward. Another area of concern required that the Head Start standards of conduct be updated to include prohibition of sexuallly abusive behavior. The standards of conduct have already been updated and signed by staff. The area of noncompliance involved the hiring of one or more staff members without the results of a initial background check received. The team is already working on corrective action plan with the agency.

The Board will next go into Closed Session to conduct three Interdistrict Transfer Hearings and discuss existing litigation.

Please note, these are just the highlights of what is on the agenda for the 5/6/26 meeting. You can inform yourself about the rest of the agenda at the link provided above. As always, feel free to email me with any questions.