Erik M. Johnstone, a ‘96 graduate of Fairfield Prep, has graduated from Loyola College in Maryland in May with a BA in elementary education. Mr ...
BAHA’I FAITH OF NEWTOWN
Contact Michael or Susan Dutton
364-1738 • mdutton@bestweb.net
Devotional meetings; spiritual discussion meetings; di...
Memorial Service
John W.       Rhinehart, MD
There will be a memorial service for John W. Rhinehart, MD, on Saturday, August 12, at 1 pm at the Newtown ...
Newtown High School High Honors
Grade 9
Anthony Altieri; Jeremy Barczak; Owen Beams; Rachel Berliner; Laura Bobel; Kelly Coney; Andrew Cruz; Matthew Cullinan; J...
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State forester Gerard Milne, right, points out some features of Upper Paugussett State Forest to hikers.
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A group of hikers explored the forest...
Underhill Road
James and Nancy Geissler recently sold their home at 116 Underhill Road to Tricia and Derek Bobowick of Sandy Hook.
Diane U. Hyman of Flagpole Re...
Positive Parenting
POSITIVE PARENTING workshops are held at NYS and may also be hosted in your school or home! We are presently setting up the fall schedule so ...
Free Blood Pressure Tests
The Danbury Visiting Nurse Association will sponsor a free blood pressure screening on Thursday, August 10, from 1 to 2 pm, at the New...
Saturday, August 12
Daily Reflections meeting, St Rose School (Monsignor Conroy Room), Church Hill Road, 6:30-8 pm.
Sunday, August 13
AA, Newtown Seni...
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).