Education

2017-18 School Year Comes To A Close

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Jun 26, 2018 12:00 AM

The 2017-18 school year in Newtown came to a close on June 26 with students waving goodbye to teachers and school staff, sharing hugs, and wishing "Happy summer!" to each other.The Newtown Bee.

At Newtown Middle School, Pharrell Williams's song "Happy" played over the loudspeaker as students exited the building at the end of the day. The line, "Because I'm happy," could be heard over the sound of students wishing each other goodbye and stepping onto school buses.

A further look at the last day of the 2017-18 school year in Newtown and additional photos will be in the June 29 print edition of

Newtown Middle School students board a bus at the close of the last day of the 2017-18 school year, June 26. (Bee Photo, Hallabeck)

Newtown Middle School student Jeremy Voegeli waves as he boards the bus with his fellow students on the last day of the 2017-18 school year. (Bee Photo, Hallabeck)

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A lovely tribute-Matt, we are thinking of you, Tanya, and entire Medve family at this time-Jane & Keith & Family 💙

Susan Medve

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!

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Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

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.

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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).

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