Newtown Friends Of Music
Continues Preparing For Its 33rd Season
Preparations for the 2010-11 season of concerts sponsored by Newtown Friends of Music got unde...
Students Spending Summer Near And Far
From crossing a river in Cancun, Mexico, on a zipline to venturing to Springfield, Mass., for a concert with the family, N...
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Medical Devices Hurt More Than 70,000 Children Annually
By Lindsey Tanner
CHICAGO (AP) — More than 70,000 children and teens go to the emergency roo...
Newtown Bridle Lands Association Events
The Newtown Bridle Lands Association (NBLA) announces events for month of August as follows:
Saturday, August 7, NBLA wi...
Letters Of Endorsement
To the Editor:
I would like to urge all Newtown Republicans to vote in next Tuesday’s primary. For the office of judge of pro...
Newtown Company Working To Clear Up Murky Waterways
By John Voket
As the environmental debacle of the BP oil spill played out in the Gulf of Mexico, many who lo...
Friendships Built Through AFS Continue
By Eliza Hallabeck
American Field Services (AFS) student Arnold Geng from Hannover, Germany, was only a student at Newtow...
Updated Parity Regulations Defend Right to Access, Enhance Addiction Treatment
HARTFORD — Kevin Lembo, state healthcare advocate, heralded new feder...
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).