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Brandon Stroy
Incumbent, lawyer | stroy4lasd.com
Top priorities
- Closing educational gaps for underserved students
- Building facilities to reduce overcrowding and have one campus for each school
- Increasing funding for teachers’ professional development and classroom innovations
Public service
- Los Altos School District Board of Trustees (2026-present)
Community involvement
- Los Altos School District Education Partners
- Blach Intermediate School PTA
- Springer Elementary School PTA
When former Los Altos school board trustee Vladimir Ivanovic stepped down in March, Brandon Stroy applied to fill his spot and was appointed to the position. After six months on the job, he’s now running for a full term and hoping to maintain the district’s high quality educational experience.
“I did not apply for that job and I’m not running now to be a disruptor of the board,” Stroy said. “They’ve been doing excellent work for a long time.”
He is one of four candidates running for three seats on the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees, which governs seven elementary and two middle schools throughout Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View. Outside his work on the school board, Stroy is an intellectual property lawyer, and his youngest daughter is in eighth grade at Blach Intermediate School.
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Candidate Comparison Grids: Los Altos School District Board of Trustees
To help voters compare and differentiate between the people running for the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees, the Voice sent a questionnaire to all the candidates, asking about their policy positions and priorities across a wide range of issues. Check out their side-by-side responses.
View the comparison grid ➔Stroy himself attended Bullis Purissima Elementary School and Egan Junior High School decades ago. When he and his wife had children, they moved within the district’s attendance boundaries, hoping to give them the quality education that he remembered.
One of his priorities is to promote educational access across every campus by ensuring resources are distributed equitably, especially as demographics and residency levels across the district change.
“To me, that’s the core ethos of public schools, it’s an equal playing field for everyone in the district,” he told the Voice.
Stroy saw the importance of managing resources throughout his time volunteering in the district, particularly as PTA president at Springer Elementary School and Blach Intermediate School.
It’s important, Stroy said, that the district set aside resources for teachers to develop themselves as well as their approaches to learning. One of his stated priorities is to advocate for continuing education and development opportunities for teachers, including giving teachers opportunities to “take new approaches in the classroom.” That means having extra funds available to teachers who might need it.
“I’m not an educator so I don’t pretend to have any expertise into what exactly an appealing classroom innovation would be or what the correct development opportunities for teachers would be, but as a board member and as a parent, I’m interested in making sure that teachers do have those opportunities,” Stroy said.
Maintaining an equitable student experience extends to school facilities, Stroy said, adding that he wants to work toward having one campus for each school. That means taking steps toward finding a permanent home for Bullis Charter School, which is currently split between Egan Junior High and Blach Intermediate schools – an arrangement Stroy said is detrimental to students.
The relationship between the school district and Bullis Charter School has been a perennial topic of local controversy. Since the charter school’s founding more than two decades ago, interactions between the two entities have been tumultuous, sometimes involving legal battles over campus space allocations.
Most recently, the district and charter school have been at odds over the district’s plans to move Bullis to a new campus that is under construction in the San Antonio area — an idea that BCS administrators have strongly opposed.
Stroy said he’s optimistic about the overall negotiations between the two parties. The charter school’s current enrollment is too large to fit on the new campus, so the district expects to continue to allocate Bullis some space on Egan’s campus once the San Antonio campus is open.
“What I think is important we do with the district is figure out how we can work with BCS to get the best outcomes for all of our students, all of BCS’ students, and maximize the benefit for everyone,” Stroy said.
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