Adoption At Strut Your Mutt
Come meet The Animal Center’s adoptable dogs from 10 am to noon on Saturday, May 21 on the Fairfield Hills Campus at th...
Critique Of Art, May 11
At SCAN Program
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will have a critique of members work during a program on Wednesday, May ...
Adopt Morgan Or Dante From The Pound
Morgan and Dante are among the many dogs available for adoption from Newtown Animal Control.
MORGAN is a neutered male ...
Nourishments—
Simple Foods: The New Food Fad
By Nancy K. Crevier
Every couple of years, a new kid on the block — or a newly rediscovered...
A Plea From Two Filmmakers
To the Editor:
Imagine our elation when we heard that our film, De-Ploy, was accepted to the Cannes Short Film Corner! The festival,...
Cassio Pet Training Center Hosts Doggie Fun Zone
Cassio Pet Resort & Training Center, 173 Mt Pleasant Road, will host the Doggie Fun Zone, along with its creato...
Police Dogs At NBLA’s Open Meeting
The Newtown Bridle Lands Association (NBLA) will have an open meeting on Tuesday, May 17 at 7:30 pm in the lowe...
*MATTHEW MORRISON, known to millions as the eternally optimistic high school teacher and de facto glee club director Will Schuester on Glee, will bring his summ...
Dodgingtown Center—
Waldorf School Vows To Fight Cell Tower Proposal
By Andrew Gorosko
The trustees of a private school in Dodgingtown Center, whic...
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).