Read-A-Thon To Benefit Haiti
By Tanjua Damon
The Newtown Middle School SPOKES club is looking for students to get out their books and read to help raise money t...
Children’s Programs
Origami Workshop: Learn how to make animals using this ancient paper folding technique, on Saturday, May 5, from 11 to ...
Don’t Believe ‘Bee’
Editorials Or Letters
To the Editor:
This is an invitation to get the facts straight. The voters of New...
By Kim J. Harmon
There was no mistaking it – after a 12-2 win over New Fairfield on Friday, April 20, and a 9-8 win over New Milford on Wednesday, A...
Newtown Historical Society
Stops To Smell The Roses
Were there roses in Connecticut’s Jurassic Park? Would anyone have stopped to smell them if the...
Arbor Drive, Brookfield
James Grove, Jr, and Marie Diaz recently purchased a home from Patricia McCarthy located at 5 Arbor Drive in Brookfield.
Jane Phillips, ...
Discussion To Address Violence And The Media
By Tanjua Damon
More and more it is reported that children are copying what they see on television or in the movies...
By Kim J. Harmon
STRATFORD – At the level the Newtown High School boys’ track team is performing, it pretty much expected an easy time w...
Lunch Menus – May 7 through 11
Newtown Elementary
Monday, May 7
CHOOSE ONE:
Meatball Grinder
Turkey & Cheese
Deli Stack
CHOOSE UP TO THRE...
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).