Overview
- Twenty-three employees — five teachers, two long-term substitutes, 11 paraprofessionals and five non-union staff — were notified last week and finish work Friday.
- Students planned a pre-school protest with custom T-shirts after hundreds staged a walkout on Monday opposing the cuts.
- School Committee member Kara Moser resigned, citing breakdowns in communication and trust across town and school leadership.
- A packed committee meeting ran more than two and a half hours in executive session without public disclosures, and the superintendent did not attend.
- District leaders say decisions were not performance-based, call the reductions 'phase 1,' and will review finances with a restructuring meeting scheduled for Tuesday.