What do we think of Karla Silvestre, MCPS BOE member, running for MoCo County Council?

[Anonymous]

She also works as a community engagement office at Montgomery College.

[Anonymous]

We hope she loses. She’s been terrible with the BOE.

[Anonymous]

Everyone I know is actively voting against her based on her BOE record.

[Anonymous]

She showed terrible judgment as a BOE member and did not listen to constituents. Hard no.

[Anonymous]

I'd vote for her over Elrich or Laurie Anne Sayles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd vote for her over Elrich or Laurie Anne Sayles.

I'll say this for Elrich - he did a better job as a stand-in superintendent to rationalize Superintendent Taylor's crazy MCPS CIP request - Elrich said no to giant middle schools, with many special populations - Elrich took out the money to grow Eastern MS from 1200 to 1500 students. Taylor thought 1500 students was a great idea, even though it is against MCPS size policy, which limits MSs to 1200 students. Elrich also denied immediate funding to re-build elementary schools, and said that Taylor should first complete the elementary school consolidation study BEFORE asking for capital funds to rebuild ESs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd vote for her over Elrich or Laurie Anne Sayles.

I'll say this for Elrich - he did a better job as a stand-in superintendent to rationalize Superintendent Taylor's crazy MCPS CIP request - Elrich said no to giant middle schools, with many special populations - Elrich took out the money to grow Eastern MS from 1200 to 1500 students. Taylor thought 1500 students was a great idea, even though it is against MCPS size policy, which limits MSs to 1200 students. Elrich also denied immediate funding to re-build elementary schools, and said that Taylor should first complete the elementary school consolidation study BEFORE asking for capital funds to rebuild ESs.

Silvestre voted to forward Taylor's CIP request to Elrich and the county council. She rubber-stamps Taylor's decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd vote for her over Elrich or Laurie Anne Sayles.

I'll say this for Elrich - he did a better job as a stand-in superintendent to rationalize Superintendent Taylor's crazy MCPS CIP request - Elrich said no to giant middle schools, with many special populations - Elrich took out the money to grow Eastern MS from 1200 to 1500 students. Taylor thought 1500 students was a great idea, even though it is against MCPS size policy, which limits MSs to 1200 students. Elrich also denied immediate funding to re-build elementary schools, and said that Taylor should first complete the elementary school consolidation study BEFORE asking for capital funds to rebuild ESs.

? there are a few MS with more than 1200 capacity, certainly they have more than 1200 students enrolled.

see last page

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/departments/planning/fy2027/cip27_appendixe.pdf

[Anonymous]

MCPS doesn't have a policy for size of school. They might have guidelines. The state of Maryland also has guidelines, 600 for ES, 1200 for MS and 2,000 for HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd vote for her over Elrich or Laurie Anne Sayles.

I'll say this for Elrich - he did a better job as a stand-in superintendent to rationalize Superintendent Taylor's crazy MCPS CIP request - Elrich said no to giant middle schools, with many special populations - Elrich took out the money to grow Eastern MS from 1200 to 1500 students. Taylor thought 1500 students was a great idea, even though it is against MCPS size policy, which limits MSs to 1200 students. Elrich also denied immediate funding to re-build elementary schools, and said that Taylor should first complete the elementary school consolidation study BEFORE asking for capital funds to rebuild ESs.

? there are a few MS with more than 1200 capacity, certainly they have more than 1200 students enrolled.

see last page

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/departments/planning/fy2027/cip27_appendixe.pdf

I know there are a couple of larger middle schools - they are on the west side, higher SES, low FARMS,...makes it a little easier, but really no middle school should be over 1200. Boundary adjustments are needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS doesn't have a policy for size of school. They might have guidelines. The state of Maryland also has guidelines, 600 for ES, 1200 for MS and 2,000 for HS.

See page six of the regulation:
https://gis.mcpsmd.org/roundtablepdfs/RockTerraceTilden_RegulationFAARA.pdf

[Anonymous]

My point exactly - "preferred range" is not a policy, it's a suggestion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My point exactly - "preferred range" is not a policy, it's a suggestion

MCPS regulations are all suggestions - filled with caveats - it's all that is available by way of policy.

[Anonymous]

Meh.

[Anonymous]

Silvestre was spineless during the Beidleman scandal and the recent boundary/program study analysis. She tried to talk a big game with her last minute amendments but never answers emails or shows up for the communities she says she wants to represent.