Wasserman Votes Against State Deficit Reduction Plan
State Representative Julia B. Wasserman opposed the deficit mitigation plan approved by the General Assemb...
A Huge Waste Of Funds
To the Editor:
I often take Wasserman Way from Route 25 to I-84 Exit 11. I always notice the new wonderful school that has been built for ...
Now On View
*The Brookfield Philatelic Society has a beautiful and informative exhibit of stamps on display at the library for the month of March. Plea...
SHELTON – After suffering their first loss of the season in the opening round of the recent Jockey Hollow Tournament, the Newtown Middle School boys...
‘Monologues’ At WCSU
DANBURY — Western CT State University will present a production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina ...
Henry T.         Gibson, Sr
Henry Taylor Gibson, Sr, 89, formerly of New Preston, died February 28 at Ashlar of Newtown.
Mr Gibson was born November 1...
Frozen Coil Causes Water Leak At Reed School
By Tanjua Damon
A frozen coil on an air handling system in a mechanical room at Reed Intermediate School dumped an ...
Free Program
On LD/ADHD For Parents
WESTPORT — The Connecticut Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities (CACLD) has announced...
When The Irish Came To Town––
The Greening Of Newtown
By Jan Howard
In 1900, the Irish population of Newtown of 1,447 was 44.2 percent o...
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).