Immaculate High School Announces
Second Quarter Honor Roll
DANBURY — Immaculate High School, serving greater Danbury, has announced its honor roll ...
WATERBURY – Teikyo Post University’s Equine Program is sponsoring a weekend seminar on Veterinary Infrared Thermography (IRT) as an intr...
Mattatuck Museum Receives IMLS Grant
WATERBURY — The history of Waterbury’s neighborhoods will come alive for future generations thanks ...
Newcomers Hosting Family Movie Day
BETHEL — Newtown Newcomers’ Club will host a Family Movie Day on Saturday, March 6.
The club is hosti...
New Security Firm Hired
For Fairfield Hills
By Jan Howard
The state Department of Public Works has contracted with DeMarco, Miles and Murphy, Inc of Hartford to...
Al-Anon Convention Mar. 12–14
CROMWELL — The 27th Connecticut Al-Anon Convention will be held March 12–14 at the Raddison Ho...
AAUW Presents
Marist College Professor
BRIDGEPORT — Barbara Anne Lavin McEleney, a professor at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will be the f...
Aldrich Museum Announces
New Stage A Performance Series
RIDGEFIELD — The Aldrich Contemporary Art museum’s galleries may be closed for c...
Connecticut Writing Project At Fairfield University
FAIRFIELD — Students writers in grades 6–12 and their teachers are invited to gather...
REAL ESTATE NOTES – STND HD
Willow Brook Lane
Prudential Residential Services sold a home at 3 Willow Brook Lane to Linda and Frank Burhance, former...
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).