As the state of California, county health agencies and hospitals courageously battle the COVID 19 pandemic, the Silicon Valley Ethics Roundtable highlights a subgroup of our community that also requires a strong commitment to action. A recent countywide survey shows an ever increasing homeless population now at well over 9,000 with 42% having mental health...
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Randles, Reyes and Reese: San Jose-Evergreen Community College District underserves San Jose students
For many years we have been studying the problem of how the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District (SJECCD) underserves San Jose students with limited class and program offerings, forcing many students to attend other community college districts. This is a matter of equity, social justice and educational opportunity. The chancellor and the trustees of the...
Huttenhoff: Public life should become focus of San Jose’s business-recovery strategy
Official from SPUR in San Jose suggests additional steps City Council can take to aid small and micro businesses when shelter-in-place restrictions ease
From the editor: San Jose small business owners, we’re here to help
Owning a small business in Silicon Valley has never been easy. Now with the coronavirus pandemic closing local businesses for two months, it is nearly impossible. We know you’re struggling. As founders of San José Spotlight, the city’s first nonprofit news startup, we are small business owners ourselves. We launched our organization more than a...
Jimenez and Kelly: Two billion dollars could help San Jose
What could you do with $2 billion dollars? Two billion! No, that’s not a line from an Austin Powers movie. It’s the amount of money the city has stockpiled in its investment portfolio. This is money that could be used to protect essential services and lessen the pain small businesses are suffering during this crisis....
Funk: COVID-19 has exacerbated the crisis in education
In my 30 years of being in public education, I have seen trends come and go, as well as calls for reform. The system of public education has not drastically changed in the last 150 years. It was designed to provide immigrants, farmers and the working poor an opportunity to be trained for entry level...
Ockenfels-Martinez: Abandoning essential workers is a public health issue
Gig economy companies should be doing more to protect their workers and meet requirements under Assembly Bill 5 during the coronavirus pandemic
Vargas: Betsy DeVos’ new Title IX rules are dangerous
I spent 4 years working in Student Affairs at the University of Southern California. In 2006, I got my first job working with students as a resident advisor, and then served in a number of other roles until 2010 when I finished my masters degree in education. During this period, the higher education community was...
Bramson: How to help vulnerable families survive COVID-19
In the 1930s, with the Great Depression blanketing the country, countless families faced the heartbreaking uncertainties of how to pay the bills, what to eat for each meal and even where to sleep the next night. With staggering unemployment, Americans were displaced at record numbers, shocked, dejected and hopeless. Then, perhaps not so different from...
Cortese: Support our foster youth in a post-coronavirus world
We are living in an unprecedented time that has forced a paradigm shift upon us. There is an understanding among many across the globe that we are all dealing with the same obstacle. For most of us, life has been stalled by the COVID-19 virus. Daily luxuries, which may have been taken for granted, have been replaced by...