Escuela Popular and Regular Business

The Wednesday, August 5, 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 (2) 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 SCCOE will Announce the 2026-27 Student Board Member. 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 a Request for Renewal Appeal Decision for the Escuela Popular Center for Training and Careers Family Center (EPCTC). This is an action item and the SCCOE staff's presentation, recommendation, resolution, and other supporting documentation can be found under agenda Item 8A. EPCTC was denied renewal from its chartering authority, East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD), and has appealed that decision to the SCCBOE. The charter department of the SCCOE has recommended against renewing EPCTC's charter. The SCCOE staff found EPCTC: (1) presented an unsound educational program, (2) is demonstrably unlikely to successfully implement its program, (3) closure is in best interest of students, and (4) there are substantial governance issues.

Next, 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 Attendance Awareness Month, donations to the SCCOE, Head Start Monthly Report, Early Learning Services Department Program Design for 26-27, and Contracts over $250K. You can read more about all of them under agenda items 9 and 10.

Dr. Candi Clark, Interim Assistant Superintendent, Business Services will then present Budget Revisions for the Month of July 2026. This is an action item and her supporting documentation can be found under agenda item 11A. The short of it is that during the month of July 2026, the expenditure budget was increased by $244,000; revenue was increased by $114,000; and use of carryover was $130,000. The $114,000 is restricted revenue in the amount of $114,000 for Charter Authorizer Support Initiative (CASI) through an agreement with the California Department of Education that supports the expansion of professional development and networking opportunities for charter school authorizers. The carryover in the amount of $130,000 is from the Deferred Maintenance Fund and was allocated to support a security modernization project at Ridder Park and other school sites.

Please note, these are just the highlights of what is on the agenda for the 8/5/26 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.