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Wakefield candidate warns cuts to federal education funding would hit special education, Title I and school meals
Summary
Thomas Markham, incumbent Wakefield School Committee member and candidate, said an abrupt loss of U.S. Department of Education funding would create “dramatic” budget gaps for Wakefield, affecting special education, Title I literacy supports and subsidized school meals.
Thomas Markham, an incumbent member of the Wakefield School Committee and a candidate in the town election, told WCAT that proposals to dismantle or sharply cut the U.S. Department of Education would have serious financial consequences for Wakefield Public Schools.
Markham said federal funding supports three major categories that would be hardest hit locally: special education services, Title I literacy programming and federally supported school meal programs. “The loss of a Title I and literacy funding would be dramatic,” Markham said,…
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