The Wayland School Committee
The Wayland School Committee consists of five elected members each serving three-year April-to-April terms.
The terms are staggered such that two members are elected one year, two members the next year,
and one member the third year. The Wayland School Committee informs about
and advocates for the Wayland Public Schools--the Committee's mission
statement is available
here.
Web Site Current Status
This official Web site of the Wayland School Committee is privately funded solely by the five elected Committee members.
The content on this site is controlled by the Committee as a whole, and
represents the majority or unanimous position of the Committee--generally the latter.
All communication is solicited, either by the viewer actively choosing to
visit this Web site or by actively subscribing to the Committee's email
newsletter.
The vast majority of this Site's content and its associated email communication does not pertain to ballot questions
(overrides or debt exclusions).
The Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) holds that
public funds may not be used to send unsolicited communication regarding ballot questions
(see especially
OCPF Interpretive Bulletin 91-01).
The Committee does not use public money to fund this site or email originating from the waylandschoolcommmittee.org domain,
and it does not send unsolicited communication.
The OCPF is aware of and takes no exception to this School Committee Web site and to its link from the
publicly funded Wayland Public Schools Web site.
Web Site History
The domain waylandschoolcommittee.org
(WHOIS lookup)
was first registered in 2002 to provide a platform from which the
School Committee could inform about and advocate for the Wayland Public Schools.
It was initially created separate from the publicly funded Wayland Public Schools Web site
(www.wayland.k12.ma.us)
for ease of updating by the Committee.
For the first 6 years of the site's existence, it was registered to
one Committee member at that member's private address, phone number, and
email address.
In 2008, several residents expressed concern about this registration, citing the potential for confusion.
At that time, for reasons of clarification, the Committee changed the site's registration
address, phone number, and email address to the Town Building district
central office to reflect the
always-extant Committee (rather than individual) ownership and content control.
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