Sayer was under fire in the aftermath of the Phoebe Prince bullying case over the School Department's handling of it.
South Hadley schools superintendent Gus A. Sayer will retire sometime after October, the South Hadley School Committee announced Tuesday night.SOUTH HADLEY – South Hadley Superintendent of Schools Gus Sayer will retire sometime after September, the School Committee announced at its meeting Tuesday night.
Sayer was under fire in the aftermath of the Phoebe Prince bullying case over the School Department's handling of it. Prince, a ninth-grader at South Hadley High School, committed suicide in January 2010 after what prosecutors said was a period of intense harassment by some fellow students.
The School Committee had given Sayer a two-year contract extension in February 2010. The School Committee met five times in executive session in 2010 to discuss Sayer’s performance and future amid the public uproar following Prince's suicide.
This is a developing story; MassLive will have more details later tonight, and the full story will be published Wednesday in The Republican.