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Highlands Community Charter supporters ask Twin Rivers board to intervene as credentialing changes trigger mass layoffs
Summary
Students, staff and union leaders urged Twin Rivers Unified to press state credentialing agencies to protect Highlands Community Charter after recent changes led to more than 600 staff layoff notices and threatened services for thousands of adult learners.
Supporters of Highlands Community Charter and representatives of Twin Rivers Unified's educator union used the board meeting to press for immediate action after state credentialing changes triggered mass layoff notices at Highlands.
"The layoff of over 600 staff members is [a] devastating loss," Jade Teal, an employee of Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, told the board. She said the cuts would remove "critical support systems" for thousands of adult students and urged trustees not to "give up on the lives of over 10,000 individuals" who rely on Highlands' services.
Isabelle Amezcua, who identified herself as a student onboarding and records manager at Highlands, said the school serves many immigrants and refugees and warned that the credentialing changes would…
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