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We continue to spend more money to keep the current [educational] system. Parents fear that this continual spending will guarantee that their chi...
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To the Editor:
The Republican Party has metamorphosed into Trump’s Cult. Its present members in Washington include Senators McConnell, Cruz, Graham, and Rubio. ...
To the Editor:
The letter below is my response to a request for monetary contribution from Senator Jeff Merkley.
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To the Editor:
We are deeply saddened by the loss of one of our own Botsford Post Office employees, Sean Thomas. Sean, our beloved sales and service associate, ...
To the Editor:
This Fourth of July, we have so much to celebrate. After more than a year spent apart, Americans everywhere are looking forward to finally gather...
To the Editor:
I am writing in regard to a letter sent to The Bee [The Newtown Bee, June 11, 2021, “Concerns About Former President Of The United States”] for t...
To the Editor:
I’m going to be a sophomore in high school in just a few months and recently got involved with the Citizens Climate Lobby. The CCL works to enact...
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).