Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue sent a message to district parents and staff on February 27 regarding CoVid-19 (Coronavirus.)
The letter reads:
Dea...
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The year 2020 is off to a busy start for women’s rights. Not only do we celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote, but the Equal Rights Amendment...
After jumping out to a 9-0 lead, Newtown High School's basketball team fended off a visiting no-quit East Hartford lineup to hang on for a 31-28 victory in the ...
To the Editor:
The Newtown Parent Connection raised over $6,000 and hit our goal of receiving over 50 unique contributions [on Fairfield County Giving Day, Thur...
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will host Frank Bruckmann on Wednesday, March 11, at 7:30 pm, with a demonstration of painting with oils.
The pr...
A co-founder of the locally based advocacy nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise (SHP) has resigned, telling The Newtown Bee he is turning his full attention to his fami...
Fifteen Newtown nonprofit organizations raised nearly $22,000 on February 27 during the seventh annual 24-hour Fairfield County’s Giving Day online marathon fun...
UPDATE (Wednesday, March 11, 2020): The Borough Zoning Commission meeting scheduled for tonight has been cancelled for health and safety reasons in view of ...
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club’s March events include a presentation on Night Photography and Light Painting, and a club meeting with competition for member...
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).