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Educators, students and parents urge district to avoid staff cuts and to make student committee meaningful
Summary
Administrators, teachers and high‑school students used the open mic to urge the school committee to avoid personnel cuts amid a projected multi‑million‑dollar deficit and to ensure the new student school committee leads to concrete student representation.
Several speakers used the meeting’s open‑mic period to press the school committee on two themes: avoiding staff cuts in the face of a projected fiscal shortfall and ensuring new student representation is substantive.
Maura Sheriff, introduced as president of the Lynn Schools Administrators Association and a 27‑year Lynn educator, said the district is "in the middle of a budget process for SY 26" and that she had been "made aware of potential significant cuts," with the most concerning being cuts to personnel. "Any reduction to our staff will result in student suffering," Sheriff said, and she urged the committee to…
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