In response to parent concerns expressed [naviga:u]at the August 14 Board of Education meeting[/naviga:u], Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue presente...
Newtown Hikers is an open group welcoming anyone interested in hiking and the outdoors. There is no membership fee.
Hikes are held Saturday mornings, with the g...
Police Commission members this week approved a policy to provide guidance to police officers in the use of body-worn cameras, also known as bodycams, a surveill...
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MONROE — Monroe Congregational Church, 34 Church Street in Monroe, will host a sew-a-thon to support Dress A Girl Around the World on Saturday, September 15, fr...
A local developer is proposing that a 29.2-acre parcel in Hattertown, which lies southeast of Castle Meadow Road, be subdivided into nine residential building l...
Like a swarm of bees, Newtown Bee staff members buzzed out into the backyard of the office building last Thursday afternoon, where they found Business Manager S...
Klickers Hair Studio, 147 Mount Pleasant Road, will host its Eighth Annual Cut-A-Thon on Sunday, September 16, from 10 am to 2 pm.
Dry haircuts will be done by ...
The Sandy Hook Elementary School PTA hosted a picnic the evening of August 30 to welcome students and family members to the 2018-19 school year.
The event is an...
For two Newtown public school principals, the first week of school marked the first time students were in attendance since starting their new positions. Both He...
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).