A school district exists for one reason — its students.
Every decision it makes should be measured by a single question: does it benefit the children in our classrooms? San Jose Unified School District’s recent move toward buying condos in downtown San Jose fails that test.
Right now, students across our district are learning in classrooms with broken heating and air conditioning, and playing on cracked, aging blacktops that are overdue to be replaced. These are not luxuries. They are the basic conditions a child needs to learn…