Business as Usual

The Wednesday, July 15, 2026, Santa Clara County Board of Education (SCCBOE) meeting will start at 5:00pm. The Board will immediately adjourn to closed session to conduct seven (7) intradistrict hearings and discuss anticipated litigation; public session will reconvene after closed session.  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.

When open session commences, first up on the agenda, the SCCBOE will recognize SCCOE's California Charter Authorizing Professionals (CCAP) Awardee, Dr. Michelle Johnson. 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 resolutions recognizing Air Pollution, American Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month, and National Immunization Awareness Month. You can read more about all of them under agenda items 8 and 9.

Dr. Michelle Johnson will next give the Board a Charter Schools Update. This is an information item and her presentation and this year's SCCOE Annual Charter Schools Data Book can be found under agenda item 10B. Of note, the Board is expected to hear nine charter renewals this school year (see schedule above).

Please note, these are just the highlights of what is on the agenda for the 7/15/26 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.