Nithin Iyengar
CA
Nithin Iyengar leads the Give Forward Foundation, an education charity, and was twice elected to the Walnut Creek School District board; he started as a math teacher. He says he will focus on keeping good teachers, helping students still catching up from the pandemic, and preparing them for AI.
Where Nithin Iyengar stands, based on their records
Supports
Government Efficiency (5 records), Public Safety and Crime Control (5 records), Civil Rights (7 records),
Mixed record
Government Spending Reduction (1 support · 15 oppose), Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties (5 support · 1 oppose), Public Education Quality (35 support · 1 oppose),
Track record
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 5 support
Moved and voted in a 4–0 decision for policy updates governing electronic signatures, with security, consent and record-retention requirements. One trustee was absent.
October 17, 2022Supports Government Efficiency
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 3–0 decision for a $74,305.59 replacement of seven-year-old core servers. The plan supported internal communications, file and print services, easier security patching and five-year support.
May 16, 2022Supports Government Efficiency
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for a district printing-service overhaul. The plan replaced central copiers and consolidated maintenance and toner support, projecting $135,000 in savings over five years and less IT support work.
September 27, 2021Supports Government Efficiency
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to delegate COVID-19 contracting and essential-service decisions to the superintendent. The resolution capped nonconstruction contracts at $95,200 and construction or maintenance contracts at $60,000, with board review within 60 days. It reduced delays in emergency service delivery.
April 20, 2020Supports Government Efficiency
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Coauthored a study of district innovation zones in five school systems. It supported school autonomy over staffing, curriculum and budgets, paired with durable performance agreements, district accountability and teacher development.
October 16, 2017Supports Government Efficiency
Source: files.eric.ed.gov
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 1 support · 15 oppose
Voted in a 3–0 decision for plans allocating $1,532,966 in learning-recovery funds and $2,108,584 in arts, music and instructional-material funds. Uses included academic intervention, wellness, technology and instructional materials across 2023–26.
November 14, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted for teacher and classified agreements in 5–0 decisions. They granted an 8 percent salary increase, a 1 percent bonus and an additional $100 monthly health contribution. Teacher terms included special-day-class incentives and IEP release time.
August 22, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 4–0 decision to authorize substitute-pay caps of $275 daily and $285 for long-term assignments. The proposal addressed 313 unfilled absences and reduced reliance on instructional staff to cover classes.
August 8, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 5–0 decision to place a $134 million school-facilities bond measure before voters. The order authorized the election, rather than immediate bond issuance.
July 25, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 consent decision to implement revised teacher and classified salary schedules following the December agreements granting a 5 percent salary increase.
January 10, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted for the Educator Effectiveness spending plan in a 5–0 decision. It allocated $193,607 to teacher induction and $500,000 to professional development across 2021–26.
December 13, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to approve the ESSER III expenditure plan. It funded devices and technical support, a health and quarantine coordinator, JumpStart literacy and mathematics, and math intervention.
October 11, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded approval of the 2021–22 school budget and accountability plan. The plan included academic intervention, English-learner support, wellness centers, increased counseling and parent education. Each approval carried 5–0.
June 14, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted for one-time teacher and classified-staff bonuses in 5–0 decisions. Employees active for at least half their work calendar received $2,500; those active for less received $1,250.
June 7, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to authorize up to $20 million in 2016-election Series C school bonds.
September 8, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to revise the school budget with $1,885,156 in added restricted revenue and spending. The added funds supported learning-loss mitigation, distance learning, and safer campuses during the pandemic.
August 7, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for $3 million in school budget reductions. The package cut materials, professional development, services and department budgets, and reduced or reassigned teaching, special-education, coaching and administrative positions.
June 15, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to support Proposition 13, the 2020 public preschool, K–12 and college health-and-safety bond measure.
February 10, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in 5–0 decisions to approve teacher, classified, management and confidential pay agreements. They set a 2.5% salary increase and 0.5% one-time bonus for 2019–20, followed by a 1% increase for 2020–21.
June 17, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to authorize up to $20 million in 2016-election Series B school bonds.
April 22, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to approve two student-support grant plans. They allocated $219,339 to instructional coaching and DreamBox mathematics, and $10,939 toward a school counselor.
February 11, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 5 support
Moved and voted in a 5–0 decision to install outdoor security cameras for vandalism deterrence, at a cost of $15,178.19.
December 13, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for revised child-abuse reporting, suicide-prevention and hate-behavior policies. They established staff reporting and training, crisis-response procedures, protected-trait safeguards and complaint handling.
November 29, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for policy updates defining school-resource officer roles through agreements, training and de-escalation. The policy separated policing from routine school discipline and required review of interactions and nondiscrimination.
November 29, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted for a resolution denouncing hate crimes and bigotry against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in a 5–0 decision. It called for protecting targeted people and accountability for hate crimes.
March 22, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for new adult–student boundary and restraint rules. The updates required reporting staff violations, set discipline and law-enforcement referrals, and added bullying prevention, reporting and corrective-action procedures.
September 23, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Track record — Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 5 support · 1 oppose
Voted in a 3–0 decision for policy updates protecting employee religious expression and prohibiting retaliation for safeguarding student free expression or reporting legal violations. Two trustees were absent.
November 14, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for policy updates defining school-resource officer roles through agreements, training and de-escalation. The policy separated policing from routine school discipline and required review of interactions and nondiscrimination.
November 29, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for policy updates establishing Title IX sexual-harassment complaint procedures. They covered supportive measures, investigations, written decisions, appeals and seven-year record retention, alongside employee political-activity protections and expanded family leave.
March 22, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to adopt a student technology-use agreement. It denied an expectation of privacy on district systems and authorized staff monitoring and review of school-network files and communications without prior notice.
May 11, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for technology rules limiting searches of students’ personal devices. The agreement tied searches to legal authority, including a warrant, consent, or a good-faith emergency involving death or serious injury.
May 11, 2020Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for policy updates protecting public criticism of school employees and English learners’ access to core courses. The changes also barred discriminatory dress-code enforcement and seclusion or restraint as discipline.
September 23, 2019Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Track record — Public Education Quality
Public Education Quality · 35 support · 1 oppose
Participated in Breakthrough Collaborative's educator-workforce panel and argued for funding preparation and support that kept teachers in classrooms.
April 16, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: breakthroughcollaborative.org
Voted in a 3–0 decision for plans allocating $1,532,966 in learning-recovery funds and $2,108,584 in arts, music and instructional-material funds. Uses included academic intervention, wellness, technology and instructional materials across 2023–26.
November 14, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 3–0 decision to approve school achievement plans addressing mathematics, literacy assessment, writing instruction, staff development, student-support teams and pupil leadership.
November 14, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 4–0 decision for updated pupil-service policies. They required nutritious breakfast and lunch for any requesting pupil, regardless of meal-subsidy eligibility. They also required free menstrual products in covered school restrooms, with inspection and complaint procedures. One trustee was absent.
October 17, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted for teacher and classified agreements in 5–0 decisions. They granted an 8 percent salary increase, a 1 percent bonus and an additional $100 monthly health contribution. Teacher terms included special-day-class incentives and IEP release time.
August 22, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 4–0 decision for the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program plan. It provided childcare and enrichment until 6 p.m., healthy activity and snacks, arts, science, mathematics and literacy, with lower staffing ratios for younger pupils.
August 8, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 4–0 decision to authorize substitute-pay caps of $275 daily and $285 for long-term assignments. The proposal addressed 313 unfilled absences and reduced reliance on instructional staff to cover classes.
August 8, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 3–0 decision to add a WCI student-support administrator. The proposal addressed chronic absenteeism, suspensions, pupil stress and coordinated student support. Two trustees were absent.
May 16, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 3–0 decision to adopt Reporteros Spanish materials for grades 6–8, with a spending limit of $200,000. Two trustees were absent.
May 16, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 5–0 decision to purchase and install a $186,010.29 playground structure for Indian Valley's transitional-kindergarten and kindergarten pupils.
April 18, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for a $160,000 full-time-chef partnership to improve district meal preparation. The proposal used WCI as a central warehouse and supported scratch cooking at school sites.
April 18, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted for the Educator Effectiveness spending plan in a 5–0 decision. It allocated $193,607 to teacher induction and $500,000 to professional development across 2021–26.
December 13, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 5–0 decision to accept a WCEF gift supporting art, science, music, twelve middle-school electives, library staffing and a mathematics coach.
November 29, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for special-education identification and student-support policy updates. They required timely evaluation, informed parental consent and child-find duties, without delaying evaluation for response-to-intervention services.
November 29, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to approve the ESSER III expenditure plan. It funded devices and technical support, a health and quarantine coordinator, JumpStart literacy and mathematics, and math intervention.
October 11, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded approval of independent-study arrangements with Antioch and the revised district policy; both carried 4–0, with one trustee absent. The policy required equivalent academic challenge, live instruction, written learning agreements, progress checks and return to classroom instruction within five school days.
August 23, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved approval of the first phase of the district equity plan and social-emotional learning standards; the motion carried 5–0. The materials set student-data review, targeted learning supports, and standards for emotional management, relationships and responsible decisions.
June 14, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded approval of the 2021–22 school budget and accountability plan. The plan included academic intervention, English-learner support, wellness centers, increased counseling and parent education. Each approval carried 5–0.
June 14, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Publicly opposed another change to the spring hybrid-learning plan. He cited disrupted teacher and pupil relationships, staff workload, and the needs of families remaining remote. The board reached consensus to keep its existing plan.
March 26, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted for the middle-school reopening timetable in a 5–0 decision. It authorized grade 6 to return March 15 and grades 7–8 to return March 22.
March 8, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in 5–0 decisions to submit a COVID-19 safety plan for funding and authorize hybrid instruction after county health thresholds were met.
February 8, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted for new elementary science materials in a 5–0 decision. The adoption selected STEMscopes for transitional kindergarten through grade 2, and Amplify Science for grades 3–5, beginning in 2021–22.
December 14, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted for an AM/PM hybrid school schedule in a 5–0 decision. It set November 16 for transitional kindergarten, November 30 for kindergarten, and January 2021 for grades 1–8.
October 19, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to endorse Proposition 15, the Schools and Communities First initiative. The resolution supported commercial-property tax changes to raise education and local-government funding.
October 5, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in 5–0 decisions to adopt the learning-continuity plan and extend remote instruction. The approved timetable kept elementary pupils remote through November 6 and grades 6–8 through January 8, 2021.
September 21, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to revise the school budget with $1,885,156 in added restricted revenue and spending. The added funds supported learning-loss mitigation, distance learning, and safer campuses during the pandemic.
August 7, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to adopt Amplify Science for grades 6–8, with a cost cap of $200,000.
June 22, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for $3 million in school budget reductions. The package cut materials, professional development, services and department budgets, and reduced or reassigned teaching, special-education, coaching and administrative positions.
June 15, 2020Opposes Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to spend up to $287,000 on flexible classroom furniture for 15 fifth-grade classrooms. This followed the district’s earlier classroom-furniture pilot.
March 16, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to add Technical Theater II and noncompetitive physical education electives at Walnut Creek Intermediate.
February 10, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to support Proposition 13, the 2020 public preschool, K–12 and college health-and-safety bond measure.
February 10, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for policy updates protecting public criticism of school employees and English learners’ access to core courses. The changes also barred discriminatory dress-code enforcement and seclusion or restraint as discipline.
September 23, 2019Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to adopt History Alive! materials for grades 6–8. The courses covered the ancient world, the medieval world, and United States history through industrialization.
May 6, 2019Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to approve two student-support grant plans. They allocated $219,339 to instructional coaching and DreamBox mathematics, and $10,939 toward a school counselor.
February 11, 2019Supports Public Education Quality
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Coauthored a study of district innovation zones in five school systems. It supported school autonomy over staffing, curriculum and budgets, paired with durable performance agreements, district accountability and teacher development.
October 16, 2017Supports Public Education Quality
Source: files.eric.ed.gov
Coauthored research on high-school turnarounds, arguing for college and career readiness, stronger teacher preparation and retention, and earlier learning supports.
January 28, 2013Supports Public Education Quality
Source: bridgespan.org
Track record — Data Privacy
Data Privacy · 3 support · 1 oppose
Seconded and voted for a standard student-data privacy agreement in a 5–0 decision. It restricted vendor data use and commercial profiling, required secure handling, and set a 48-hour maximum for breach notice to the district.
May 11, 2020Supports Data Privacy
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to adopt a student technology-use agreement. It denied an expectation of privacy on district systems and authorized staff monitoring and review of school-network files and communications without prior notice.
May 11, 2020Opposes Data Privacy
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for technology rules limiting searches of students’ personal devices. The agreement tied searches to legal authority, including a warrant, consent, or a good-faith emergency involving death or serious injury.
May 11, 2020Supports Data Privacy
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for records-policy updates protecting immigration and religious information from disclosure to federal authorities. The changes also excluded requested student and parent personal information from board minutes.
September 23, 2019Supports Data Privacy
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 7 support
Voted in a 3–0 decision for policy updates protecting employee religious expression and prohibiting retaliation for safeguarding student free expression or reporting legal violations. Two trustees were absent.
November 14, 2022Supports Civil Rights
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for revised child-abuse reporting, suicide-prevention and hate-behavior policies. They established staff reporting and training, crisis-response procedures, protected-trait safeguards and complaint handling.
November 29, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for special-education identification and student-support policy updates. They required timely evaluation, informed parental consent and child-find duties, without delaying evaluation for response-to-intervention services.
November 29, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for policy updates defining school-resource officer roles through agreements, training and de-escalation. The policy separated policing from routine school discipline and required review of interactions and nondiscrimination.
November 29, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for policy updates establishing Title IX sexual-harassment complaint procedures. They covered supportive measures, investigations, written decisions, appeals and seven-year record retention, alongside employee political-activity protections and expanded family leave.
March 22, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted for a resolution denouncing hate crimes and bigotry against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in a 5–0 decision. It called for protecting targeted people and accountability for hate crimes.
March 22, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for policy updates protecting public criticism of school employees and English learners’ access to core courses. The changes also barred discriminatory dress-code enforcement and seclusion or restraint as discipline.
September 23, 2019Supports Civil Rights
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 9 support
Moved and voted in a 5–0 decision to place a $134 million school-facilities bond measure before voters. The order authorized the election, rather than immediate bond issuance.
July 25, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 3–0 decision for a $74,305.59 replacement of seven-year-old core servers. The plan supported internal communications, file and print services, easier security patching and five-year support.
May 16, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted in a 5–0 decision to purchase and install a $186,010.29 playground structure for Indian Valley's transitional-kindergarten and kindergarten pupils.
April 18, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted in a 4–0 decision for the remaining Measure D facilities plan, including $9,575,325 in HVAC work. It addressed filtered air, classroom comfort, energy use and maintenance. One trustee was absent.
February 7, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to authorize up to $20 million in 2016-election Series C school bonds.
September 8, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to increase school-facility fees on new development. The adopted rate was $2.86 per square foot for ordinary residential projects, with separate commercial and senior-housing rates.
May 11, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to support Proposition 13, the 2020 public preschool, K–12 and college health-and-safety bond measure.
February 10, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to approve Walnut Creek Intermediate’s renovation design and $30,346,000 project budget, funded by Measure D.
May 6, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to authorize up to $20 million in 2016-election Series B school bonds.
April 22, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Track record — General
General · 25 records
Served as vice-chair of New Teacher Center’s board, whose leadership roster identified his GiveForward Foundation affiliation.
October 24, 2026
Source: newteachercenter.org
Received the Contra Costa Young Democrats' endorsement for Acalanes Union High School District Trustee Area 1 in its November 2026 election slate.
October 24, 2026
Source: cocoyoungdems.org
Served as Treasurer of New Teacher Center, as identified by its official corporate registry entries.
October 24, 2026
Source: apps.sos.wv.gov
Received the Democratic Party of Contra Costa County's endorsement for Acalanes Union High School District Trustee Area 1 in its 2026 general-election slate.
October 22, 2026
Source: contracostadems.com
Received the Lamorinda Democratic Club's endorsement for Acalanes Union High School District Trustee Area 1 in its 2026 slate.
October 15, 2026
Source: ldclub.org
Closed a funders' briefing on immigrant communities and urged foundations to ask grantees about their responses and local experiences.
June 1, 2026
Source: assetfunders.org
Served on the boards of Alder Graduate School of Education and One World Network of Schools.
January 14, 2026
Source: aldergse.edu
Worked as a mathematics teacher and instructional coach, then in district roles in Pittsburg, Oakland and Philadelphia. He joined Bridgespan in 2010 and headed its San Francisco office from 2020 to 2025.
January 14, 2026
Source: aldergse.edu
Served as Managing Director of GiveForward Foundation.
June 4, 2025
Source: giveforwardfoundation.org
Was selected for the Pahara Fellowship's new 24-person education-leadership cohort. The announcement identified him as a Bridgespan partner and head of its San Francisco office.
February 27, 2025
Source: pahara.org
Hosted a professional interview with 1954 Project cofounder Liz Thompson. Their discussion documented his prior consulting involvement in the project and participation in its leadership summits.
July 11, 2024
Source: bridgespan.org
Resigned from the WCSD governing board effective January 24, 2023. The district's February 6 minutes recorded the effective date and began the process of filling the vacancy.
January 24, 2023
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted in a 5–0 decision to extend the citizens' bond-oversight committee bylaws to Measure J alongside Measure D. They required open meetings, independent audit review, annual public reporting and online disclosure.
January 9, 2023
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Took the oath for a renewed four-year WCSD governing-board term. The board also elected him Clerk for one year, 3–0; he abstained and one trustee was absent.
December 12, 2022
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted against appointing Sarah Talach to the vacant governing-board seat. The appointment passed 3–1. He also seconded Juan Contreras's unsuccessful nomination, which tied 2–2.
December 14, 2021
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in 5–0 decisions for teacher and classified-staff COVID-19 agreements. They required protective equipment, masks, contact tracing, vaccination verification or weekly testing, ventilation measures, and extended paid COVID leave through December 31.
November 8, 2021
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision for a resolution urging priority COVID-19 vaccine access for education and childcare workers. It directed official copies to local, state and federal officials.
February 8, 2021
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Voted in a 5–0 decision to defer the November 30 kindergarten reopening. The decision aligned the timetable with public-health guidance and the later return of grades 1–8.
November 18, 2020
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Coauthored guidance on nonprofit innovation after the pandemic crisis, emphasizing needs assessment, small experiments and testing organizational assumptions.
June 10, 2020
Source: bridgespan.org
Voted in a 5–0 decision to close district schools from March 16 through March 27 during the COVID-19 emergency. The decision set April 6 as the earliest reopening date.
March 13, 2020
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Moved and voted for a district glyphosate ban in a 4–0 decision, with one trustee absent. The resolution ordered remaining products removed and properly disposed of; the district reported no use since 2017.
August 19, 2019
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Seconded and voted for a meal-program change in a 5–0 decision. It raised elementary and Tice Creek lunches from $3 to $4, WCI lunches from $3.50 to $4.50, and added $3 student breakfasts at WCI.
June 17, 2019
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Took the oath for a four-year term on the Walnut Creek School District governing board.
December 10, 2018
Source: walnutcreeksd.community.highbond.com
Provided a research interview on Oakland's school-funding system as its former school portfolio-management director. He explained how structural-deficit subsidies had increasingly reached schools serving many low-income pupils.
September 13, 2010
Source: cdn.americanprogress.org
Served as Chief of Staff to Philadelphia's School Reform Commission and participated in a Rutgers interview on school governance on March 26, 2009.
March 26, 2009
Source: spaa.newark.rutgers.edu
Past race Nithin Iyengar ran in:
- Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 1 · November 3, 2026 · Acalanes Union High School District Trustee Area 1