Unions Then And Now
To the Editor:
In 1940 a new immigrant refugee of 16 years was fortunate to find a job in depression-ridden New York at a handbag frame comp...
Woman’s Club Scholarships Available
Scholarships are again being offered by the Newtown Woman’s Club, GFWC, Inc, to qualified women who ...
Salute To Veterans Concert, Sunday Afternoon
BROOKFIELD — The well known area vocal and musical group J and B Lite will appear at a free concert t...
Seven Nights Of Healing & Miracles
BETHEL — Guiding Light Church will host seven spirit-filled nights of inspirational preaching and teaching on the...
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the C...
Knights Win 20-8 At Harbor Yard
BRIDGEPORT — Members of the Newtown Knights, a 15U/16U team that competes in Stamford fall league, will never forget...
Program: Parenting
A Middle School ChildÂ
On November 9 at 7 pm, parents and teachers are invited by Housatonic Valley Waldorf School to attend a presentatio...
The Great Pumpkin Wins The Race
Gathered around the candy bowls and jack-o-lanterns Saturday, October 30, were volunteers from Newtown Savings Bank (NSB), enjoy...
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).