A Whitman-Hanson emergency school committee meeting grew heated as hundreds of people filled a high school auditorium to learn about a budget deficit that was expected to result in job cuts.

Whitman-Hanson Superintendent Jeff Szymaniak took most of the heat during the meeting Thursday evening along with the school committee members who sat around a table.

Proposal to cut 25 positions

Szymaniak announced the district had amassed a $1.39 million deficit and would need to freeze spending as well as make cuts to staffing to make up for it. The emergency meeting was open to the public and originally held for school committee members to ask Szymaniak about the deficit and the proposed 25 positions that were set to be cut Friday morning.

Those potential cuts included teacher, paraprofessional

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