Children’s Mental Health & Parenting Expert
To Speak At Wooster School
DANBURY — Paul J. Donahue, PhD, a nationally recognized children...
Scholarships Available
The Newtown High School Career Center publicizes all scholarships of which it is notified.
A few of the scholarships, typically national ...
‘Short Skirts And Snappy Salutes’ Author Program Planned
BETHEL — In conjunction with its annual meeting, Bethel Historical ...
What do you think is the most pressing issue in Newtown now that the budget has passed?
Mary Maki: “Fairfield Hills, because it needs to be...
Joseph Robert Preston
Longtime Newtown Resident
Joseph Robert Preston, 61, of Newtown, died April 24 at his home following a brief illness. Born in Bridgep...
Black Rock Art Walks 2008 Start This Weekend
BRIDGEPORT — For the fourth year in a row, Fairfield Avenue will host Black Rock Art Walks between Brew...
Annual judged Pleasure Ride On May 10
The Friends of The Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard (2GHG) will hold the Annual Judged Pleasure Ride on t...
Youth Soccer Teams Battle On The Pitch
U14 Girls
Turf Trashers 1, Pumas 0: Renee Henriques, Lindsey Fuori and Sarah Stofco played well on defense to he...
Theater Review—
An Updated Lolita in Hartford
By Julie Stern
HARTFORD — I was a freshman in college when Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian Ã...
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).