Politics & Government
Grant Money on the Line in Wrentham Schools for the Sequester
Sequester cuts could have impact on the Wrentham Public School District.
The Wrentham School District could see some serious cuts from the sequester if it goes into full effect later this year.
Currently, schools superintendent Jeffrey Marsden said the schools receive over $320,000 from federal grants that were on the chopping block in Massachusetts.
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"I don't know what percentage of that the cut is going to entail," he said.
Marsden said currently, the schools receive $250,605 for the IDEA special education grant, $50,384 for the Title I grant, also known as the Education for the Disadvantaged grant and $22,536 from the Title IIa grant, also known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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Wrentham has not been given any definite percentages of cuts to those programs.
“There’s really not been a lot of information to us,” he said. “It’s really just been that it’s going to happen in fiscal year 2014.”
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