Teachers, families, and Whitman-Hanson School Committee members gathered for an emergency buisiness meeting Thursday night, expressing outrage over dozens of potential staff layoffs and a “lack of transparency.”

Notifications of 25 layoffs were scheduled to go out Friday morning, but have now been pushed back 30 school days after the school committee board voted to do so.

The school committee argued that the decision came as a surprise to them, and on short notice to the district as a whole. Members voted to delay the notices so other options could be explored.

“The impact of these shifts two months into the school year is catastrophic,” said a committee member.

Jeffrey Szymaniak, the Superintendent of Whitman-Hanson Regional School District, said about two weeks ago a business manager

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