Rah Rah! — Cheer Squad Advances To AYC Nationals
The Newtown Nighthawks D15 cheerleading team is heading to Orlando, Fla to compete in the American ...
Renaissance Christmas Concert
BROOKFIELD CENTER — The Entwyned Trio will present “A Renaissance Christmas Concert” on Sunday...
Choral Society Winter Concert Saturday Evening
Newtown Choral Society will be presenting Randall Thompson’s The Nativity According to St Luke as par...
NHS Runner Earns All Northeast Accolades
Newtown High School’s Jake Feinstein ended his cross country season with a strong showing at the Foot Locke...
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Six Charges
Police said they received a report about 9 am on November 30 informing them that a motor vehicle accident that had occurred ...
Wednesday Poetry Series Heading For A Hiatus
Wednesday Night Poetry Series — the longest running weekly poetry reading series in the history of Conn...
Open House & Living History Demonstration
Sunday At Matthew Curtiss House
Newtown Historical Society will host its annual Holiday Open House & Living History D...
Talk On ‘Coping With The Holidays After A Loss’
BRIDGEPORT — A presentation on “Coping with the Holidays After A...
Concert For Haiti At NUMC
Lindsey Jones and friends will perform works of Mozart, Bach, Massenet, Yon and Strauss during a special Concert To Help Haiti on Sund...
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).