Horse Care Courses At Post University
WATERBURY — Post University’s Equine Husbandry Course series, will include three Saturday seminars...
Not-So-Fun Space
To the Editor:
Do you know where your children are and what they are doing?
When visiting Dickinson Park Fun Space this week I was horrified to...
Lace ’Em Up For The Rooster Run
The 36th annual Newtown Parks and Recreation Rooster Run, a 5K road race, will take place on Saturday, May 22, begi...
Sal e Pepe Contemporary Italian Bistro Launches Express Alternative
By Nancy K. Crevier
Members of the Newtown Chamber of Commerce celebrated the close of the T...
Night Of Jazz Night Moved To NHS
The location for the Newtown Middle School’s Night of Jazz, scheduled for May 12, has been changed. It will now be ...
Rep Lyddy Generally Pleased With Outcome Of Legislative Session
By John Voket
Newtown’s State Representative Christopher Lyddy was pleased with the ...
Now On View
*Reference librarian Andrea Zimmerman and curator Mary Thomas have collaborated on a new exhibit about Pola and Rex Stout which is located in the Re...
Waldorf School Offering Tour Of Grade School Classes
Parents are invited to join the Housatonic Valley Waldorf School for a complementary tour of grade school c...
Postal Carriers’ Food Drive Is Saturday
“We need everything but pasta,” said Social Services Director Ann Piccini. Running d...
Junior Division
Gremlins 25 Ramblers 18: The juniors started the day with a tight game which was decided in the last few minutes. The Gremlins prevaile...
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).