Rell Wants List Of ‘Shovel Ready’ Projects
By Susan Haigh
Associated Press
HARTFORD — Governor M. Jodi Rell has asked state ...
Modern Christmas Classic Will Entertain & Raise Additional Funds For Town Hall Theater Fund
The Newtown Cultural Arts Commission has arranged for a special per...
‘Unity & Diversity’ Programs Preview
Unity and Diversity, a cable television program that can be seen by residents of 14 towns in th...
Pasta Dinner & Bluegrass Music At NUMC Dec. 6
The next Saturday Pasta Dinner at Newtown United Methodist Church will take place December 6 in the churchâ€&...
Robert LaPorta shared this “Nicer in Newtown” moment with The Bee: “I wanted to share a simple story with The Bee. My son an...
Cross Country Teams Run To Season’s Finish; Runners Earn Team Awards
The Newtown Intermediate/ Middle School girls’ and boysâ€&#x...
NHS Students Scores Presented To School Board
By Eliza Hallabeck
Test scores are only a small part of the larger picture for schools, according to Newtown High ...
St Rose Toy Closet Is Open For Business
The Knights of Columbus Council 185 will once again open up its Toy Closet to the greater Newtown community for the holi...
Skate Night Benefits Memorial Fund
By Eliza Hallabeck
A Skate Night at Danbury Ice Rink was held Saturday, November 8, to raise money for the Brennan Merrick Me...
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).