It is apparent that the school board’s budget that is scheduled to be presented this coming Monday night at seven o’clock will have a shocking revelation that some insiders are anticipating that the Superintendent will be announcing her proposed budget of $130,000,000.
With the economic adversities as it is forecasted to last for a period of a year or two coupled with its unemployment problems; I strongly urge the city’s taxpayers to attend this meeting in order to prevent the all time historical increase to The Board of Education Budget.
Calling your elected officials on the Board of Education would certainly emanate extreme caution, with their actions, when approving their final board deliberations.
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ReplyDeleteNo one seems to be monitoring the Board of Education and it up coming BUDGET The presentation is Monday night at seven at the regular BOE meeting
As an outsider I wonder what foolish amount the QUEEN will ask the overburned taxpayers to shell out. $ 130,000,000 ? ? ? ?....
The council appointed Leslie Jacobs to monitor the budget for you, haven't you been paying attention?
January 3, 2009 10:13 AM
As a concerned taxpayer (remember us, the ones paying the bills) who has to foot the bill for this out of control spending, what ever happened to the development of the Pinnacle Heights project which has not started yet or whatever happened to the redevelopment of downtown New Britski? Weren't these supposed to increase the tax base? And what about the tearing down of the New Britain Herald to make room for high rent, high rise apartments like they are doing in other cities? All they do is talk about this stuff and nothing seems to happen. All we do is pay higher and higher taxes every year. Well Mr. Mayor Stewart and high society members of the council, what about it? Don't forget those of us paying the bills!
ReplyDeleteTo Concerned Taxpayer: Wake up and smell the roses!
ReplyDeletePinnacle Heights is currently in the process of being demolished..It obviously is a time consuming process.
These things can't be accomplished overnight, particularly in the current state of the economy.
If you can get things done more quickly, more power to you. If so, talk to Mayor Stewart, he might put you in charge. Or, even better yet, submit your name to be nominated Mayor of New Britain in the party of your choice. Election is in November, 2009
Doris Kurtz has no more interest in New Britain than her substantial paycheck,annuities and everything else that she can grab. The day she finishes, she will leave her rented apartment pronto, if not sooner. Many of New Britain's finest establishments have a seat for whomever occupies the superintendency of schools. She, unlike her predessors, never went to any of the meetings or events. She, when asked, did not even contribute to the students' activities.
ReplyDeleteShe does not care about our students. She wants this huge budget to impress other superintendents. Ego is her middle name!
The democrats will totally support the budget, along with the idiot Jacobs, leaving the three real republicans to vote against it. It, then falls on the Finance Board to cut the very inflated budget to shreads.
Hopefully, the Common Council members who voted for Jacobs will watch how she is voting and be ashamed!
To Concerned Taxpayer: Wake up and smell the roses!
ReplyDeletePinnacle Heights is currently in the process of being demolished..It obviously is a time consuming process.
These things can't be accomplished overnight, particularly in the current state of the economy.
If you can get things done more quickly, more power to you. If so, talk to Mayor Stewart, he might put you in charge. Or, even better yet, submit your name to be nominated Mayor of New Britain in the party of your choice. Election is in November, 2009
THAT IS CORRECT THAT THE ELECTION IS IN NOVEMBER AND I PLAN TO REMIND EVERYONE WHAT THESE COMMUNISTS ON THE COUNCIL HAVE BEEN DOING TO DESTROY THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY--ALL IN THE NAME OF BUILDING A FIEFDOM FOR THEMSELVES. I BELIEVE MAYOR STEWART IS A GOOD AND DECENT MAN AND WOULD HAVE RESOLVED MANY OF THESE PROBLEMS IF HIS HANDS WERE NOT TIED BY THE ELITIST, SELFISH DEMOCRATS ON THE COUNCIL.
MAYBE IT IS TIME FOR THE LIBERAL LOON WHO POSTED THIS MESSAGE TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES. YOU WERE NO DOUBT PUT UP TO IT BY A LUNATIC LIKE SHERWACK OR TRULYWORHTLESS.
We should be looking at cutting the shool budget, not raising it in this economy. The best way to reduce the budget is through wage concessions and give backs from the unions.
ReplyDeleteMost people will say that the greedy unions will never agree to give anything back, but all you need to do is follow the example set by his excellency, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Demand your wage concessions, and when the unions refuse to give in, just layoff enough of their members until the greedy union leadership is begging the administration to take the givebacks in order to get the rest of their membership back to work so that the unions can return to collecting the union dues that were lost when the members were laid off. All we need is an adimistration with the nerve to stand up to the unions and you will end up with a union begging you to take a 10% cut in wages for all its members just to get the unemployed portion of the membership back to paying dues. If you can't figure out how to work it, I would guess that former Governor Weicker is available as a consultant.
The question now is whether the Republicans on the Board of Education will sit on their hands and do nothing as they did last year, leaving the Democrats to make the cutbacks.
ReplyDeleteMssrs. Carver, Sanders, et al ought to be living up to their responsibilities as board members.
How can Carver, Sanders et al cut the budget when the Democrats have the majority and are the party that is in bed with the unions? The Dems stand for raising taxes as high as they can so that they can just keep raising the salaries and benefits of the union members, so what would you have Carver, Sanders et al do? You call it sitting on their hands, I call it being outvoted by the communists.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Phil Sherwood hiding? Did Frank Smith's blog run him out of town? No one has seen or heard from him in weeks.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be surprised if Sherwack's personal mouthpiece, Leslie Jacobs, pushes to raise the budget to $135,000,000.00!
ReplyDeleteOh where of where has filthy Phil gone, oh where oh where could he be?
ReplyDelete130,000,000 request in this economy? I don't think so. Cut her contract now! Pay her off and bid her goodbye before the taxpayers in this city all fall to
ReplyDeleterising property taxes. She is probably seeking the boot so give it to her.
Phil Sherwood has been warned to stay away from the Blog scene I'm certain. He is always putting his foot in his mouth every time he opens it so John M. must have put
ReplyDeletea lid on him before the damage grew.
Plus Phil is being pressed here at
Frank Smith Says NB for an answer on the back car taxes something he
hasn't been able to get his hands
on for over 6 month now?
Hopefully Phil will be in attendance at the BOE meeting on Monday.
Phil will be in attendance at the BOE meeting whether he is there or not through his puppet--Jacobs.
ReplyDeleteAre you saying that Phil is embarrassed because he lacks the political importance to get us the numbers on the unpaid car taxes, or was that just one of his many empty promises? Where I come from, a real man always keeps his promises.
Anonymous says:
ReplyDeleteIncompetence in Central Administration is the main reason for the abyssmal shape in which the NB schools find themselves. Kurtz, Pianka, Jakubowski, Mulqueen, Carabilo, Walik,Stacy Corto,, etc, small wonder our schools are so bad. Add to this the boobs who are the Principals of the schools and you have a recipe for disaster. Money won't fix anything. Mayor, Council, Finance Board, give these incompetents the boot and burden the taxpayers less.
Anonymous says:
ReplyDeleteIncompetence in Central Administration is the main reason for the abyssmal shape in which the NB schools find themselves. Kurtz, Pianka, Jakubowski, Mulqueen, Carabilo, Walik,Stacy Corto,, etc, small wonder our schools are so bad. Add to this the boobs who are the Principals of the schools and you have a recipe for disaster. Money won't fix anything. Mayor, Council, Finance Board, give these incompetents the boot and burden the taxpayers less.
The Mayor promised furloughs of city employees as a means of balancing his budget. Shouldn't the school board be looking at furloughing teachers? There is no way to reduce the budget without getting the out of control cost of salaries and benefits under control.
ReplyDeleteWhat about a voucher system. The voucher program in Washington DC is a huge success and not only that, the Puerto Rican woman who is Superintendant of Schools in DC is looking for a job, so why don't we grabe her for New Britain? that should make Sherwood happy if we offer the job to a Puerto Rican!
ReplyDeleteWhy not a voucher system? That would give city parents the choice of what school they want their children to attend. Let the city schools need to compete with private schools for attendance. Competition is a good thing!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see some layoffs and furloughs of the overpaid under worked teachers. that will cut some costs.
ReplyDeleteRumor has it that Chancellor Rhee is looking for a career change, can anyone read this introduction to Chancellor Rhee, and honestly say she would not be just the change the New Britain Schools need? The Board should be trying to recruit her!
ReplyDeleteMs. Michelle Rhee
Chancellor of DC Public Schools
Chancellor with McKinley football playersChancellor Michelle Rhee was appointed by Mayor Adrian Fenty June 12, 2007. She leads D.C. Public Schools, a district numbering 50,000 students and 144 schools.
In the Mayor’s search for a change agent for schools in the District, experts in education recommended Ms. Rhee, who had already transformed many urban public school systems through her work with The New Teacher Project (TNTP).
Chancellor Joel Klein, whose work in New York City’s public schools is a model for effective change, said of her appointment that it was “the choice D.C. needs, given that, year in and year out, they have not gotten results.”
Results drive the Chancellor every day. Whether she is developing effective measurements to track student achievement and teacher quality; talking with principals and teachers in one-on-one meetings; developing new measures to hold herself and staff accountable for their roles in student achievement; traveling throughout the community to engage parents and other stakeholders in our schools; establishing partnerships with neighborhood organizations; meeting with business leaders as she transforms a broken organizational structure into one that works for students and families; or ensuring that needed repairs are completed to create physical learning environments serve students, Chancellor Rhee’s vision rests on results.
Chancellor with studentShe had these results in mind when she founded The New Teacher Project (TNTP) in 1997, and it is now a nationally recognized leader in understanding and developing innovative solutions to the challenges of new teacher hiring.
As Chief Executive Officer and President, she partnered with school districts, state education agencies, non-profit organizations, and unions, to transform the way schools and other organizations recruit, select, and train highly qualified teachers in difficult-to-staff schools.
Her work implemented widespread reform in teacher hiring, improving teacher hiring in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Miami, New York, Oakland, and Philadelphia. Thanks to TNTP, 23,000 new, high-quality teachers were placed in these schools across the country.
Ms. Rhee’s commitment to excellence in education began in a Baltimore classroom in 1992, as a Teach-for-America teacher. The lesson she learned at Harlem Park Community School informs her mission today: with the right teacher, students in urban classrooms can meet teachers’ high expectations for achievement, and the driving force behind that achievement is the quality of the Educator who works inside it.
Chancellor Rhee currently serves on the Advisory Boards for the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ); the National Center for Alternative Certification (NCAC); Project REACH of the University of Phoenix’s School of Education.
Chancellor Rhee is an Ex-Officio Member of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees. Chancellor Rhee’s expertise on education is also informed by a Bachelor’s degree in Government from Cornell University, and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
There's a joke--holding teachers responsible for student performance. We have teachers who say they will do nothing and get the same pay because they are in the union and you can't touch me no matter what I do.
ReplyDeleteIt's been asked where is Phil Sherwood these days. He's in hiding with Jim Whiskeywicz.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he will stay underground now that the ethics commission is involved.
ReplyDeleteThe Superintendent of the Board of Education submitted her proposed annual budget a sum of an approximate $126,000,000 representing a percentage increase over last year's of approximately 6.63%.
ReplyDeleteWith the economic problems our city is currently facing our City Council will have a difficult time to make the board's final request work. The state's final education grants have yet to be determined which may result with a higher increase to the aforementioned budget numbers.
A Public hearing for this proposed budget will be held by the Board Of Education Next Monday the l2th. of January.
I will submit more information in a few days.
sounds like the Supt needs to do some trimming, how about the furloughs that the Mayor proposed for city hall, let's start furloughing BOE employees. That'll bring the budget down.
ReplyDeleteRemember the budget hearing this coming Monday night. Be there.
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