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2010-05-17: Please come to Town Meeting TONIGHT to vote in favor of education technology budget request
The School Committee asks that residents vote in favor of the education technology budget request at Town Meeting TONIGHT (Wayland High School Field House, 7:30pm). This request is for $600,000 as approved by the Finance Committee. The planned breakdown of the education technology spending is as follows (details are available in our 5/6 newsletter available at http://www.waylandschoolcommittee.org/newsletter.htm).
  1. Completion of fiber installation: $100,000
  2. Data center/network expansion: $100,000
  3. Teacher Computer Initiative (TCI): $150,000
  4. Replacement of obsolete computers: $225,000
  5. Student Computer Initiative (SCI) pilot: $25,000
Additional details about the Wayland Public Schools’ education technology initiative may be found on the School Committee’s home page (see 4/25/2010 entry below the “What’s New?” section).

Thank you for your attention and support.
Louis Jurist (chair), Jeff Dieffenbach (vice chair), Malcolm Astley, Deborah Cohen, and Barb Fletcher
Wayland School Committee
www.waylandschoolcommittee.org

The Committee welcomes community input by phone, email, letter
http://www.waylandschoolcommittee.org/index.htm#contact,
and attendance at public meetings and forums scheduled as follows
http://www.wayland.k12.ma.us/district/district_info/school_committee/documents/School_Committee_Calendar_09-10_2.pdf .

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