HAPPY BIRTHDAY

By NANCY CREVIER

Published: Dec 25, 2009 12:00 AM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

December 22, Claire Hull, Age 11

December 22, Justin Hull, Age 11

December 23, Ryan Hochstetler, Age 1

December 24, Ruby Rose Rankin, Age 7

December 24, Rayna Toth, Age 5

December 28, Jack Carpenter, Age 8

December 28, Miles Layda, Age 4

December 29, Hannah Ruhs, Age 7

January 4, Sarah Ruhs, Age 5

Deadline for the January 1 issue is Monday, December 28, at 4 pm. To include your name in The Birthday Cake, send your name, address, phone number, age, and birthday to: Mini Page, The Newtown Bee, PO Box 5503, Newtown CT 06470. To include a photo in the Birthday Album, simply send an ORIGINAL photograph along with the above material. Digital JPG submissions can also be done by e-mail to Nancy@TheBee.com. Please send photos as an attachment to the email.

Entrants submitted to the birthday listing more than a month after the birth date will not be accepted.

WIN A FREE BIRTHDAY CAKE FROM

ANDREAâS PASTRY SHOP

Every week one name will be drawn from those eligible in The Birthday Cake and will win a FREE cake from Andreaâs Pastry Shop in Newtown. Last weekâs winner was Matt Principi, age 10.

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Unfortunately as voter turnout continues to decline the chances of it increasing also decline. The LC and BOF already know that the budget will be approved by virtue of the low turnout so why try to make smart decisions? The so-called referendum is essentially just a rubber stamp. They will continue to increase the budget by 2-5% every year because it's low enough to not cause a pushback under the cover of "inflation" and "maintaining the schools." Sending the budget to vote with 9% turnout is meaningless and a waste of resources on April 23rd.

Go Out And Vote April 23

I have seen Mr. Pisani repeatedly assert in the pages of the Bee that Newtown schools are "testing at a failing 64.9%". I'd be curious if he could elaborate on this statistic, as I have been unable to verify it independently. Which test exactly is our school system failing? How do our schools compare to other towns? How does our score compare to historical measures? It's very hard to draw conclusions from a single data point, so here are a few more data points to think about for context: Newtown is consistently ranked among the top 20 school districts in CT by the US News and World Report and Niche, which consider a range of performance metrics in their rankings; on average, Newtown students perform similar to, if not better than, students in neighboring school districts on standardized math and reading tests; the only data point on the CT Department of Education District Report Card where Newtown "fails" -- that is, falls behind the state average -- is access to art instruction. I'm glad the council member has acknowledged in this letter what taxpayers in high-performing (and high-spending) school districts like Darien, New Canaan, and Westport already know: "School funding does impact student achievement." Please keep that in mind when you vote this week!

All I Ask Is That You Think About It

An investment is done with a hope for a return. The operative term here is 'hope'.

Continue To Invest In Newtown’s Schools

Test scores these days measure how well kids absorbed the answers that the State DOE tells the school systems to teach.

Vote For The Budget

Your kids got a 'Blue Ribbon' education. Those days are long gone.

Supporting Our Kids By Supporting Our Schools

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