When given power and leadership opportunities, youth leaders defied teachers' and administrators' low expectations and "adultist beliefs" and enriched conversations with their own perspectives and experiences.

Brown is chair of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Santa Clara, and as a board member of two nonprofits.

A child's early education alters the course of their life, Santa Clara County Board of Education trustee Joseph DiSalvo writes.

Santa Clara County Board of Education trustee Joseph DiSalvo examines how Silicon Valley's public schools routinely fail to secure grant funding for STEM education.