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Newtown Recovery Project Slates Newest Parent Forums

Published: Mar 18, 2014 12:00 AM

The Newtown Public Schools Recovery Project has slated its next parent forums, which will take place at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown Middle School, Hawley Elementary School, and Reed Intermediate School.

Each forum will be presented twice, once during the school day and in the evening, to allow for maximum participation. Forums run for one hour.

The Sandy Hook School Parent Forum, “Helping Manage Challenging Behaviors and Conversations with Your Child,” is set for Monday, March 24. It will be facilitated by Dave Cribbins, LCSW, with the Clifford Beers Clinic and a Sandy Hook School-based clinician.

The forum will be presented at 2 and 6 pm. Both sessions will be held in the school’s lecture hall.

The NMS Parent Forum, “Video Games: Impact and Addiction,” will be on Wednesday, March 26. It will be facilitated by Mark Augustine, LMFT, and Carol Greeley, LPC, both of Wellmore Behavioral Health. Ms Greeley is also a middle school-based clinician.

The sessions will be at 9 am and 6 pm in the middle school’s conference room (B-6).

The Hawley Elementary School Parent Forum, “Tips for Managing Sibling Rivalry,” will be on Thursday, March 27. It will be facilitated by Rosa Baldino, MSW, of Wellmore Behavioral Health and a Hawley school-based clinician, and Leanne Fuccillo, Hawley school counselor.

The forum will presented 10 am and 6 pm. The morning session will be held in the school’s reading lounge, and the evening session will be held in the school’s library.

The Reed Intermediate School Parent Forum, “Spring Forward! Ideas and Programming Suggestions to Enjoy Summer,” will be facilitated by Genia Brockett, LMFT, of Wellmore Behavioral Health and a Reed school-based clinician. It will be offered at 9:15 and 6 pm.

The morning session will be held in the school’s cafetorium, and the evening session will be in the school’s media center.

Representatives from summer school, Newtown Continuing Education’s SMART program, Newtown Parks & Reaction department NYA Sports & Fitness Center will also be present for this Parent Forum.

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BOE Referendum, Round Two, UnderwayRegistered Newtown voters are heading to the polls today, for the second attempt by the Board of Education to get a budget for the 2024-25 academic year passed.Registered Newtown voters are heading to the polls today, for the second attempt by the Board of Education to get a budget for the 2024-25 academic year passed.All voting is again taking place at Newtown Middle School, 11 Queen Street. Polls opened at 6 am and will remain open until 8 pm.Following a rejection of the school budget by 507 votes at a referendum on April 23, the Legislative Council at its April 29 meeting slashed $1,408,307 from the Board of Education’s proposed 2024-25 budget.The reduction was unanimously approved by all 12 councilmen, in contrast to a previous, pre-referendum meeting on March 27, where no bottom line for the school budget drew more than a simple majority of seven votes.The new bottom line of $87,409,066 is a $2,339,415 or 2.75% spending increase over the 2023-24 budget, which places it in line with the municipal budget, which was passed by voters.The previous proposed 2024-25 BOE budget rejected by voters was $88,817,373, which would have been a $3,747,722 or 4.4% spending increase.The education budget failed, 1,701 No votes to 1,194 Yes votes.On the secondary question to the education budget — If the proposed sum for the Board of Education is not approved, should the revised budget be higher? — the responses were 727 Yes and 2,071 No.The Registrar of Voters reported 15.1% of Newtown’s registered voters participated in the April 23 referendum, with 2,952 people showing up at the middle school to vote and another 47 turning in absentee ballots.

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I was the recipient of such a invasion of my privacy when my daughter was visiting her boyfriend in Waterbury. They tried to get me to pay them taxes instead of Newtown. They were rude, offensive and threatening and I had to call the mayor of Waterbury to finally get it cleared up after being threatened. It was a long drawn out process to get this overturned. Are we that broke that we have to turn our residents over to these mercenaries? This is beyond belief. How dare you hire these rent a cops to harass and threaten us?

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