Motorist Charged In School Bus Accident
Following their investigation into a February 24 collision between an auto and a school bus on South Main Street, near C...
Bush Is Doing A Wonderful Job
To the Editor:
My president and yours, George W. Bush, you are doing a wonderful job! Please keep up the good work.
There have bee...
Shabbat Across America
Congregation Adath Israel of Newtown will be a local sponsor of the Shabbat Across America at the synagogue at 111 Huntingtown Road on Fr...
*Coming up this weekend is a show by LIZ McNICHOLL & FRIENDS, who return to Colin’s Pub on Friday night. Showtime is 9:30 pm, and you can arrive ear...
Tap, Tap, Tap On The Boulevard––
Give It Up For Syrup
By Dottie Evans
Hold it up to the light, and notice the clear, deep amber color. ...
St Vincent’s College Slates Open House
BRIDGEPORT — St Vincent’s College Admissions Office is holding an open house on Satur...
Motorist Charged In School Bus Accident
Following their investigation into a February 24 collision between an auto and a school bus on South Main Street, near C...
Workshop On Managing Stress
FAIRFIELD — Health care professionals and those who just want to learn more about holistic techniques are invited to â&#...
The parents of Newtown have every right to demand and expect our Board of Education to consider our needs. After all, are we not the ones paying the hefty price...
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).