Last Thursday, the director of San José’ s Job Corps center, Davina Wong, gathered students at the federally funded trade school for an emergency town hall.

The site, Wong said, was at serious risk of being shut down by the Trump administration, leaving about 350 students without anywhere to go, according to Brandon Marroquin, who studies mechatronics there. An additional 110 students commute to the center’s technical training programs.

The announcement came after months of uncertainty following DOGE-led federal workforce and program cuts. A week later, the Department of Labor announced in a blanket release on May 29 that it would pause operations at 99 out of 131 Job Corps centers nationally on June 30.

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