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‘LOOKING FOR JAMESTOWN’ IN BEDFORD
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BEDFORD, VA. — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents the e...
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SHARED DREAMS LECTURE BY NANCY GREEN, THE GROLIER CLUB
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NEW YORK CITY — “Shared Dreams: Partnerships...
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STAMP COLLECTING FESTIVAL WILL OPEN OCT 14 IN NORTH HAVEN, CONN.
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NORTH HAVEN, CONN. — October is National Stamp Col...
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POUND RIDGE ANTIQUES MARKET
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POUND RIDGE, N.Y. —Dealers’ reports of sales during September’s...
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BARN STAR PILOTS THREE-YEAR-OLD PRINCETON SHOW TO NEW HEIGHTS
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 PRINCETON, N.J. — Show organizers are s...
October 20-21 Show At The Connecticut Expo Center
On Sunday, October 21, the second day of the Fall Hartford Antiques Show, there will be two booth chat lecture...
LORA ROBINS GALLERY OF DESIGN TO SHOW CONTEMPORARY CASTINGS OCTOBER 5
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RICHMOND, VA. — The Lora Robins Gallery of Design From Nature ...
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ANY PORT, USA — What is 228 feet long, weighs in at 3,200 tons, requires...
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).