‘Unity And Diversity’ Programs Preview
Unity and Diversity, a cable television program that features leaders and representatives of ...
State Medicaid Patients May Get Weight Watchers Benefit
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Facing more than $100 million in annual costs linked to obesity, the Med...
Cellist To Continue NFoM
Concert Series This Month
Canadian cellist Soo Bae will appear in recital in Newtown on Sunday, February 11, at 3 pm, at Edmond Town H...
Learning To Rules Of The Road
To the Editor:
I just returned from the fourth driving lesson with my daughter and felt the need to address a situation that spea...
A Picture Paints A Thousand Words
Share Newtown’s history with Newtown old-timers and newcomers alike by passing on photos of interest to The Newtow...
New Milford Hospital Celebrates Free Valet Parking
NEW MILFORD — On Friday, February 2, New Milford Hospital plans to officially roll out a new se...
Late-Night Snack Put Couple
On Track To Burgerittoville
A cheeseburger on a tortilla, topped with crumbled bacon, romaine lettuce, diced tomato, and tomato may...
Victory At All Costs
To the Editor:
I whole heartedly support Stan Rajczewski, Jr’s, and Pat Callery’s (WWII 101st Airborne Division) le...
Spirit Restoring Bald Eagle Trip
SOUTHBURY — New Morning Store of Woodbury is sponsoring a trip to the Bald Eagle Observation Station in Southbury o...
Teaching The Teachers About ‘Trout In The Classroom’
By Kendra Bobowick
Environmentalists are tempting teachers to figure out what to do...
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).