Newtown Support Groups
Friday, June 3Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.
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It was raining ducks (rather than cats and dogs, or even raindrops) on Saturday afternoon, down by the Pootatuck River in Sandy Hook Center. The Lions hosted an...
School Facilities Group Reviews
School Closing Options
By Eliza Hallabeck
With projected enrollment numbers before them, members of the Newtown School Faciliti...
Newtown High Golfers Compete In Postseason
Newtown High School’s boys’ golf team placed sixth at the South-West Conference championship...
State Rep Frustrated By School Bd’s Reaction
To Special Ed Concerns
By John Voket
Saying that she and fellow State Representative Chris Lyddy are â...
Occupation: I am a preschool teacher at Merry Hill Child Care Center on Queen Street. I’ve been a preschool teacher for 11 years, almost nine of...
Marathon Training
Newtown resident Danielle Feltman is a marathon training coach for a beginner group of runners preparing to participate in the October 15 ING ...
Many Support
Team In The Pink
To the Editor:
Hello everyone!
Just a short note to thank everyone who supported our many fundraisers which raised funds for the ...
Top NHS Students Pushed Each Other To Excel
By Eliza Hallabeck
After being named as the 2011 Newtown High School valedictorian and salutatorian respectively, Dr...
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).