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Bryan Johnson
Incumbent | bryanjohnsonforlasd.com
Top priorities
- Updating best practices for learning with emerging technologies and AI
- Modernizing existing school facilities and building a new campus
- Adding and improving support systems for underserved students inside and outside the classroom
Public service
- Los Altos School District Board of Trustees (2016-present)
Community involvement
- Santa Rita Elementary School PTA
- 2014 Measure N bond campaign committee
With a decade on the dais already under his belt, Bryan Johnson is running for another four years on the Los Altos school board, hoping to continue advocating for facility modernization and the construction of a new school campus in Mountain View.
“I do want to see that the rest of the way through to completion, now that we finally have shovels in the ground and are moving earth and are creating this beautiful new facility,” Johnson said.
Johnson 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. His children, who are now in college, attended Santa Rita Elementary and Egan Junior High schools.
Even though his children have aged out of the district, Johnson said he’s eager to help LASD move forward on large projects — namely the construction of the San Antonio campus in Mountain View, also called the “10th school site.” Demolition on the 11.7-acre plot of land, which was formerly a strip mall, began earlier this year.
Johnson’s long tenure and subsequent involvement in many of the district’s major projects is part of why he was inspired to run again. He was first elected to the board in a 2016 special election, and then won reelection in 2018 and 2022. Before joining the school board, Johnson was an active member of the Santa Rita Elementary School PTA.
“I think it is valuable to have someone in the room who was there and has the context,” Johnson told the Voice.
One of Johnson’s stated priorities is helping underserved students achieve success — “the kind of thing where your work is never done,” he said, noting that the way the district goes about supporting students continually fluctuates. Children have increasingly complex obstacles to contend with, Johnson said, and he hopes to help continue to find ways to support students inside and outside the classroom.
This school year, the district hired a Family Engagement Facilitator to connect underserved students’ families with local resources, whether they need food, housing or other forms of assistance.
“There are resources in the area, but often families that are overwhelmed like that don’t know who to ask or where to look,” Johnson said. “Having somebody from the district who can go out, understand those needs and make the connection … can make a huge difference in unlocking that child’s abilities.”
Similarly, Johnson wants to work with teachers and administrators to iron out the district’s best practices around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Education technology has evolved quickly over the past decade, Johnson said, and the district needs to be mindful of how it’s deployed in classrooms.
A perennial topic of local controversy has been the relationship between the school district and Bullis Charter School. 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 intent to move Bullis to the 10th site. Johnson described the plan as a “path to a long term solution” — even though charter school administrators have been strongly against it.
Despite the opposition, Johnson said he’s optimistic about Bullis using the San Antonio campus. He’s also focused on modernizing all of the district’s campuses, most of which haven’t seen an overhaul in decades. Similarly, the charter school is currently housed in portable classrooms at Egan Junior High and Blach Intermediate schools.
“Those facilities are not intended to last that long,” Johnson said. “We were always going to need to eventually find permanent facilities for the charter school.”
The Voice has published an individual profile of each Los Altos School District Board of Trustees candidate. To view those articles, and the rest of our election coverage, head over to our 2026 Election Center.
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