Wayland Town Crier 10/27/10: Teachers union, Wayland School Committee reach agreement. A tentative agreement has been reached between the bargaining parties representing the Wayland Teachers Union and the School Committee in ongoing negotiations for a new contract agreement, Wayland School Superintendent Dr. Gary Burton announced today. The union and School Committee must now ratify the settlement. Details, which cover hours, wages and working conditions, will be released once the formal agreement is in place. This should take about two weeks, Burton said.

Wayland School Committee 10/14/10: Superintendent Search Process. The School Committee met recently with consultants who will assist the Committee with its search for the District's next Superintendent, and together they detailed a timeline which moves toward the selection of the next Superintendent by mid-February 2011.

Wayland Student Press Network 10/14/10: Teachers’ contract negotiations stalled | Wayland Student Press Network. Negotiations over the new contract between the town of Wayland and the Wayland Teachers’ Association, the local teachers’ union, have dragged on in recent months, leaving teachers working under an outdated contract. Since late last winter there have been ongoing negotiations between teachers and the Wayland School Committee. Because no new contract agreement has been reached, teachers are now working under the most recent contract, which expired on August 1st of this year. The School Committee, Superintendent Gary Burton, WHS Principal Patrick Tutwiler, and the Wayland Teachers’ Association all declined to comment on the causes of the hold-up, citing the legal necessity of keeping ongoing negotiations private.

Boston Globe 9/23/10: West of Boston, some good schools find US testing standards unrealistic – The Boston Globe.

As a federal deadline approaches for making all students proficient in English and math, officials in some top area school districts find themselves in an unfamiliar position — explaining why their schools aren’t making enough progress. A Globe review of this year’s MCAS results, released this month, shows that just under half of area schools — approximately 133 out of 269 — met the “adequate yearly progress’’ standard set under the federal No Child Left Behind law. Nearly every school district in the area had at least one school that did not meet the standard — including such high-performing districts as Arlington, Belmont, Brookline, Newton, Wayland, and Wellesley — and some school officials said the numbers paint an unfair portrait.

Wayland School Committee 9/16/10: Selection of Superintendent Search Firm . The School Committee has selected Future Management Systems ("FMS") as the firm who will assist the Committee with the search process for the District's next Superintendent. FMS, located in Beverly MA, has thirty years of direct experience working with non-profit organizations, corporations, educational institutions and all levels of government in the areas of strategic planning, leadership and executive searches and organizational development. The School Committee plans to meet with FMS shortly to determine the series of next steps, including gathering community input, as it develops the timeline for the search process.

Wayland Town Crier 9/9/10: Wayland High School building project in full swing. Members of the Wayland community, whether they were students, parents or teachers, arrived at the High School Building Committee (HSBC) update presentation last week with one question in mind. Traffic and parking were the overarching issues of the evening. The atmosphere of the forum was "everything you’ve always wanted to know about the new High School but were afraid to ask" and representatives from all involved parties did their best to answer.

Boston Globe 6/27/10: Applause for schools keeping music at core. Whether it’s marching band, jazz, choir, or music theory, if you offer it they will play. At least that’s the experience in the Belmont school district, which was recently named one of the country’s Best Communities for Music Education, along with public schools in Weston, Westborough, Wayland, and the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School in Franklin.