Brenton Young currently serves as the Chief Policy Officer at the Wyoming Department of Education. Previously, he served as the Assistant Director of Instruction for Laramie County School District #1 in Cheyenne, Wyoming and as chairman of the Wyoming State Board of Education. He was also a member of the Wyoming Teacher Standards Board, was Principal at Buffalo Ridge Elementary, Willadsen Elementary and McCormick Jr. High, and has taught in grades K-12. Young worked with state leaders to adopt and revise state standards in all content areas, and was a member of a state task force charged with developing a new statewide assessment system for Wyoming.
1987 University of Wyoming, B.S. in Elementary Education
University of Wyoming, M.A. in Educational Leadership