Wadsworth Atheneum Set To Restore ‘Lazarus’
HARTFORD — A monumental painting by the American artist Benjamin West will be re...
The Rotary team visited Curtis Packaging Co. From left, Kwang-Ju Lee, Young-In Kim, Won-Mi Choi, Yeon-Hee Park, and Team Leader, Rotarian Sang-Kyu Kim.
The S...
Exhibition To Celebrate ‘Ulysses’ In WCSU Archives Dept.
DANBURY — Whether you’ve been too intimidated by the bu...
Integrative Therapies Promote Health And Well-being
By Jan Howard
“Healing Pathways,” a program of integrative therapies, was presented ...
Patrick Kelley, son of Michael and Mary Kelley of Sandy Hook, graduated magna cum laude from Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y., with a dual degree in financ...
Pasta Dinner & Bluegrass At NUMC
The next Saturday Pasta Dinner at Newtown United Methodist Church in Sandy Hook will be on June 7 in the church’s f...
SMART Enrichment Summer Programs Offered
The Newtown Continuing Education Department is offering SMART Too!, a summer enrichment program for students in grades ...
Summer Festival Chorus Auditions
FAIRFIELD — The popular Summer Festival Chorus of Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the...
Saturday Fundraiser At NHS––
Let The Good Times Roll At Skate And Music Festival
By Dottie Evans
The Newtown Youth Services (NYS) and th...
Borough Approves Village District Zoning, Seeking Aesthetic Harmony
By Andrew Gorosko
The Borough Zoning Commission has unanimously approved Village District zo...
I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!
Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.
The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).