‘Moral Failure’: Parents, Mental Health Workers Urge PVUSD Trustees to Reject Sweeping Layoffs

PVUSD trustees mull more than 150 layoffs

In the middle of more than an hour of public comment Wednesday during the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting, Gabriel Barraza—a frequent critic of the district—gave a quote he said is well known in public administration. “Show me your budget, and I’ll show you your values,” he said.  The line became a common theme during the contentious meeting—which lasted well past midnight—when the board discussed a list of recomm…

‘Moral failure’: Parents, mental health workers urge PVUSD trustees to reject sweeping layoffs

Teachers, mental health clinicians and parents packed Watsonville’s City Council chambers Wednesday night to plead with Pajaro Valley Unified School District officials to scrap a plan to cut 160 full-time positions next month. The post ‘Moral failure’: Parents, mental health workers urge PVUSD trustees to reject sweeping layoffs appeared first on Lookout Santa Cruz.