The Connecticut State Department of Education recently offered resources and materials for students in response to protests and riots across the country followi...
It has been 63 days since we last put a print edition of The Newtown Bee to bed, shutting down the pounding of the presses on Commerce Road, and not knowing wha...
It is a great pleasure for me, as publisher of The Newtown Bee, to announce that the printing presses are once again in action, and that you, our readers, have ...
At its last meeting before the end of the 2019-20 school year, the Board of Education passed a number of motions on June 2 that will impact the 2020-21 fiscal y...
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The Board of Police Commissioners met this week for the first time since March. Due to continued safety measures in place for the current health emergency, comm...
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).