The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City houses the largest collection, spanning 5,000 years of art, in the world. Just approaching the massive building ...
By Nancy K. Crevier & Kendra Bobowick
As the new year began in 2016, the quest for a site for a permanent memorial to 12/14 continued. The Sandy Hook Perma...
Often struggling throughout the year, community center planners and town officials succeeded in 2016 in bringing the project closer to construction.
By year's e...
Newtown High School's gymnastics team has new coaches, as Head Coach Chelsie Eckman and Assistant Coach Juli Soracin take over, and former Nighthawk Anna Jannot...
Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr and Board of Education Chair Keith Alexander both offered a look back at 2016 in the final weeks of the year.
Wit...
Traditionally one of the top dance programs in the state, Newtown High School's squad - coming off championship success a year ago - is looking for more of the ...
There are many social issues that impact not only people nationwide and worldwide, but those who live in Newtown. Among those items addressed in The Newtown Bee...
Fedela "Fran" Mascendaro Cidorowich, 95, a proud lifelong resident of Bridgeport, died December 29 at Regional Hospice of Danbury. She was the beloved wife for ...
There were a number of building projects in the Newtown school district in 2016, and the completion of the new Sandy Hook Elementary School building was certain...
For students in the Newtown Public Schools 2016 was a busy year, filled with projects and accomplishments. The year included many projects, lessons, and one spe...
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).