Occupation: I have been director of adult and continuing education for the Newtown schools for five years. I graduated with a bachelor of general studies, w...
Few Attend Saturday
Budget Hearing
By Steve Bigham
Only three people turned out for the annual Saturday morning public hearing on the proposed town budget March...
Theresa Loar At Fairfield University
FAIRFIELD — Theresa Loar, former director of the White House Interagency Council on Women and Senior Coordinato...
Lyme Disease Forum On April 9
The Newtown Rotary Club, in conjunction with the Newtown Lyme Disease Task Force, will present a program on Lyme disease preven...
Tom Nelson will also entertain with his Celtic harp. Borders will have the presenters’ books available for sale. The event is a fundraiser for local...
Valley Classic Bike Racing
Scenes like this (the Planet Outdoors team at the Killington, Vermont Stage Race 2000) will be found at the Housatonic Valley Classic...
Mr And Mrs John J. Beardsworth
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South Main Crash
Motorist Andrew M. Hernandez, 20, of Bridgeport was driving a 1994 Ford Explorer northbound on South Main Street about 4 pm March 26, when...
DANBURY – The Housatonic Valley Classic, featuring five of the top professional cycling teams, will be held Sunday, May 20. Wheelworks/Cannondale â&...
Steele Helps St. Thomas More Win Title
Courtney Steele (fourth from left, in back), a 2000 graduate of Newtown High School, helped the St. Thomas More â€&#...
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).