Santa Clara County leaders and advocates are calling on state lawmakers to protect the healthcare system from devastating...
Bell: Santa Clara County budget cuts threaten future for foster youth
Education is often called the great equalizer. But for young people in foster care, education is too often disrupted by instability, interrupted schooling, trauma and a lack of consistent support systems. At the very moment these students need more guidance, more advocacy and more opportunity, proposed budget cuts in Santa Clara County threaten to remove critical support services. This would be a tragic mistake. Cuts to educational support services may reduce budgets on paper, but they increase costs elsewhere in homelessness, unemployment, healthcare and the criminal justice system. Cutting these services now will create far greater public expense in the...
