Reinterpreting Stereotypes
BRIDGEPORT — Organizers are hoping that a short-term exhibition at The Barnum Museum will shed new light on the industria...
Newtown High School To Host Eighth Grade Parent Night
An Eighth Grade Parent Night will take place on Tuesday, February 6 (snow date, Tuesday, February 13), in ...
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of The ...
Newtown Support Groups
Friday, February 2Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion...
Team Tendler Becomes A Real Estate Family Affair
By John Voket
Since the dawn of time, fathers-in-law have been introducing sons-in-law to the family business. ...
Iraq:
We Broke It, We Should Fix It
To the Editor:
In response to Martin Blanco [Letter Hive, January 26, 2007, “Lessons Of History”]: ...
Traditional Scans Often Miss Strokes
LONDON (AP) — The most common method of diagnosing a stroke in the emergency rooms catches only about one out o...
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).