Wayland Patch 1/7/11: School Committee Hears Superintendent’s Recommended Budget.  Recommended budget meets Finance Committee guidelines, includes new positions and avoids increases in student fees.

Wayland’s School Committee convened Thursday night to discuss Superintendent Gary Burton’s recommended FY2012 budget. It is the 17th and final budget recommendation presentation the retiring Burton will offer to the committee. The Finance Committee’s guidelines require the School Committee budget to remain flat at $31,382,713, but the Finance Committee has offered to supply $425,000 for staff increases and $75,000 for special education and student transportation costs on top of that flat budget number.

Wayland Patch 1/5/11: Wayland Schools Submit Bullying Prevention Plan. The Bullying Prevention and Intervention Plan that Wayland Public Schools submitted to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) includes elements of training, reporting options, resources and curriculum adoption ideas designed to curtail bullying in the town's schools.

Thanks to the generosity of Wayland families and local organizations, the Wayland Public Schools Foundation (WPSF) recently awarded $172,000 in grants to the Wayland Public Schools. Every year, Wayland Schools and classrooms (K-12) are the recipients of teacher grant requests geared toward enriching the core curriculum, and funding technology and cutting-edge programs that would otherwise go unfunded.   With school budgets under increasing pressure, WPSF’s grants are critically important to maintaining the tradition of excellence in Wayland classrooms.

Wayland Student Press Network 1/4/11: WHS proposes condom availability for students | Wayland Student Press Network. In November, the Wayland High School Health Office issued a proposal to make condoms available at the school to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The issue was raised when a medical professional parent reached out to the school nurse, Amy Schoeff, to talk about why condoms were not available at WHS. After conversations with students and reviewing the 2008 Youth Behavior Survey results, Schoeff had also noticed a high rate of sexual activity and a low rate of protection against STIs in the student population. With the support of Principal Patrick Tutwiler, school guidance counselors, the Board of Health and WHS parents, the Health Office decided to take action.

Wayland Town Crier 12/1/10: Details of new contract for Wayland teachers. The Wayland Teachers Association (WTA) and the Wayland School Committee are pleased to announce…

Wayland Town Crier 11/24/10: Wayland School Committee tackles curriculum, superintendent search. The needs and priorities of the five district schools, an operation review, superintendent search, high school building project and the beginning of the fiscal 2012 budget process are expected to keep school leaders busy in the next few months. To keep residents updated, the School Committee held a public hearing on those topics Monday night.

Wayland Town Crier 11/17/10: School districts work on collaboration plans. The "G4" Working Group, comprised of the school districts of Lincoln, Lincoln-Sudbury, Sudbury and Wayland, has been working to find ways for the districts to collaborate and/or consolidate their key operations in an effort to save money or improve services.