Silveira, a Fitchburg resident and marketing director at Promega Corp., has one daughter at West High School. She's running again because "continuity in leadership is important," especially now that the district has a new superintendent, Dan Nerad, and is undergoing a community-based strategic planning process.
If reelected, Silveira would focus on curriculum, resources, facilities, staffing and other issues to raise the achievement level of all students amid "rapidly changing demographics and a broken state funding system." She'd promote school safety and security.
A lot of the answers to problems, Silveira says, will come from the public "strategic planning" sessions that began this winter and are expected to wrap up in May or June with a plan for the school board.
Gors agrees it's an important process, but feels the need for "more input and more participation."