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Wayland High School to shrink academic support center staff; district seeks ways to preserve services
Summary
The academic support center at Wayland High School will lose a full-time teacher due to retirement and not be replaced for FY26, prompting administrators to reassign intervention duties, rely on peer tutoring and consider restoring staffing if extra revenue arrives.
Wayland High School administrators told the School Committee on Jan. 30 that the Academic Support Center—used for targeted academic interventions and peer tutoring—will see a reduction in direct certified-teacher staffing for FY26 because of an upcoming retirement.
Allison, a district staff member who oversees high school programming, summarized the center’s history and current functions: an academic support coordinator and a certified teacher had been providing day-to-day intervention for roughly 100 students scheduled into the center. The coordinator also handles monitoring, case…
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