30 jobs at stake at Mass. school district as community ‘blindsided’ by $1.39M deficit

More than two dozen Massachusetts educators’ jobs are at stake as the Whitman-Hanson School District scrambles to fix a $1.39 million budget deficit — without a clear explanation on how it happened.

Notification letters for layoffs impacting 30 district positions had been scheduled to go out Friday morning, but were delayed for 30 school days after a tense School Committee meeting was held Thursday night.

Teachers, families and members called out the district during the meeting for a lack of transparency, saying the news has them “blindsided.”…

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