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Ward 2 forum highlights leadership, IEP fixes and local funding priorities

League of Women Voters — Northampton school committee forum · October 29, 2025
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Ward 2 candidates Anat Wiesenfreund and Angela Wack outlined their backgrounds and competing approaches to IEP remediation, district funding and leadership retention, with Wiesenfreund emphasizing systemic fixes and local revenue and Wack emphasizing classroom experience and operational policies.

Ward 2 candidates Anat Wiesenfreund and Angela Wack used a League of Women Voters forum on Nov. 3 to outline responses to a recent state finding about IEP failures and to describe priorities for superintendent selection, family engagement and district funding.

Anat Wiesenfreund, the incumbent on the school committee and chair of the budgets and properties subcommittee, described more than three decades of work on early-childhood and Head Start programs and said she moved to adopt a "strong budget"…

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