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Speaker 1: Lexington Public Schools is preparing to cut sixty five positions

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Speaker 1: in schools as it grapples with a significant budget deficit.

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Speaker 1: The gap is chalked up to several factors, including the

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Speaker 1: rising costs of healthcare, and after the announcement, a vote

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Speaker 1: from last year has been brought back to the front

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Speaker 1: of folks minds.

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Speaker 2: When this, you know, the cut layoffs started being announced

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Speaker 2: this year, we were all taken aback because this should

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Speaker 2: have been discussed last year when people went to vote

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Speaker 2: for such an expensive high school.

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Speaker 1: Schuber voted against a plan from last year for a

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Speaker 1: new six hundred and sixty million dollar high school, one

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Speaker 1: that would become the nation's most expensive public school. Even

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Speaker 1: residents that voted for it have expressed some regrets and

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Speaker 1: response to the layoffs, but some residents like David, believe

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Speaker 1: that while the layoffs are hard, the high school needs

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Speaker 1: to be replaced.

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Speaker 3: I voted for it, and I do not regret my vote.

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Speaker 3: I think that the town needed a new high school

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Speaker 3: badly from Lexington.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio