My name is Bryan Biggers, and I'm running for the William S. Hart Union High School District Governing Board in Trustee Area 2.
My wife and I grew up in Santa Clarita and graduated from Hart District schools. From preschool through Hart High and College of the Canyons, my parents, teachers and neighbors here equipped me for everything that came after. I bused tables in high school and waited them through college. I finished at CSUN with a business degree — the first in my family to graduate college. Today two of my children are students at Hart, a junior and a freshman.
What Hart prepared me for
My first management job was running the Coffee Kiosk chain of drive-throughs, where I was responsible for more than 70 employees — most of them high school and college students working their first real job. You learn quickly that showing up for young people looks like clear expectations, honest feedback, and being someone they can count on. That hasn't changed for me since.
For five years after that, coordinating gifts-in-kind for Children's Hunger Fund was my day job. It's a Sylmar-based nonprofit that distributes food to families in need, and my work was asking companies to donate product and then getting it where it needed to go. It's a useful skill for a board facing real budget pressure: before you ask taxpayers for more, find out what you can get for free.
In 2014 I started a construction company with a close friend. Twelve years later, that construction company is still my day job. I read plans, hold bids, meet budgets, and make payroll — directly relevant experience for a board that oversees nearly half a billion dollars annually and more than 15 campus facilities.
One thing worth saying plainly: our company builds private and commercial projects. We do not bid public school work, and we won't. I'm not running to be near a contract. I'm running because I know what it takes to keep a budget honest, and I think this district deserves that from its board.
Time in the classroom
After college, I substitute taught in this district. It was just a few months, but it was long enough to see what our teachers carry. A substitute gets one day. A teacher gets a hundred and eighty, plus the grading, the parent emails, the kids who need extra time after the bell, and much more. I came away with a specific, first-hand respect and appreciation for that work.
Coaching
Over the past 15 years I've been coaching SCV students—including AYSO, Flying Phoenix Track Club, SCV flag football, and our SCVMTB student mountain bike team. Coaching is where you learn what's actually going on with students — on the ride home, on the sideline, from a fourteen-year-old catching his breath at the top of a climb. Those conversations don't happen only because you ask, they happen because you invested weeks and months, and the kid decided you were safe to talk to.
Successful students — that's the job
Everything a school board does is either helping students learn or getting in the way of it. That's the test I'll apply. And success isn't a single route; it's whether students are equipped with what they need to pursue what comes after.
I took AP classes at Hart, and I've spent my career in construction. I'm the product of strong academics and getting my hands dirty, and I don't think this district has to choose between them. Students who want a demanding AP load and a competitive path to a four-year university should be able to get it, and making sure they can is the board's job. Students who want to build things should have a real technical pathway that leads to a career, not just a leftover elective. Both students deserve our full investment.
Getting there takes three things:
Strong teachers
Teachers are the engine of our schools — not a line item, the engine. Support them, keep them, and back them up. No student gets a strong education without a teacher who is respected and equipped to give it, and every conversation about student outcomes that skips past that is a conversation going nowhere.
Safe schools
Our schools need resource officers and real support to stay safe, but culture does more than equipment ever will. Safety is whether a kid has one adult on that campus who knows their name and would notice if something were wrong. No student learns well anywhere they don't feel safe.
Straight answers
Parents deserve a board that treats them as partners: one that listens well, provides straight answers, and keeps budgets open. Parents who know what's going on are the best allies a school has.
Why I'm running
I'm running to ensure that Hart District schools continue to deliver the highest levels of education, preparation and training. I came up through these schools, I have kids in them now, and I'll still be standing in this community long after this election is decided.
I'd be grateful for your vote in November.