Amherst school chief: ‘About 16 positions will be lost’ in regional district
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
AMHERST – School Superintendent Michael Morris has acknowledged that the district’s challenged financial reality means 16 staff positions will be lost around July 1.
Amherst-Pelham regional school board on Tuesday began reviewing a proposed budget for the fiscal year, that will begin July 1, that will cut $864,246 from this year’s spending plan.
Morris disclosed staff positions disappearing during a remote meeting Thursday evening -- convened following a petition by hundreds of parents, upset about the all-remote learning regimen, which was focus of the Feb. 4 meeting.
Parents have been pushing the district to figure out a way to begin in-person learning, saying their children have suffered educationally, emotionally and socially – and that more families will exit the district to find schooling elsewhere for their children – if all-remote learning continues, and absent a plan to return students to campus.