Wayland Patch 10/18/12: School Committee, Residents Question FinCom on Reduced Budgets. Schedule a meeting to discuss a possible 10 percent budget cut to Wayland schools, and you’ll likely attract a crowd too big for the meeting room. That’s what happened Monday night as residents packed shoulder to shoulder in the School Committee hearing room for a discussion between the School Committee and the Finance Committee about the recently released budget guidelines for Fiscal Year 2014.

Wayland Town Crier 10/18/12: Wayland School Committee bristles at FinCom request. Repeated mention was made of the fact that, among the top six schools in the Boston Magazine survey, Wayland spent the smallest amount per pupil. School Committee Chairwoman Barb Fletcher also spoke of the difficulty of having discussions of cuts in budget and personnel in public and on cable TV.