NAUGATUCK — The kids have spoken, and they’re not happy. On Monday night, when the picketing, marching and chanting before a Board of Education meeting lasted longer than the meeting itself, students criticized financial mismanagement that last year left the school system $1 million in the red and this year has given it the unsavory distinction of being the only district in Connecticut without an operating budget.

The board’s most recent deficit projection for the 2009-10 fiscal year is $1.07 million, down from the $1.3 million projected last month. When the board last met, two weeks ago, Superintendent of Schools Dr. John Tindall-Gibson said closing the gap could require laying off as many as 14 teachers, including the dozen hired over the summer.

NAUGATUCK — It won’t solve the borough’s education budget crisis, but a new Walmart program will help 10 teachers at Central Avenue School provide classroom supplies to their students. Last…

NAUGATUCK — The borough will have one business manager to oversee both the school and town budgets, at least temporarily. The Board of Education on Tuesday voted unanimously to rescind…

BEACON FALLS — In the early 1960s, when Region 16 Teacher of the Year Award recipient John Polletta was in elementary school, there were “no labels for kids,” he said….

BEACON FALLS — The percentage of Woodland Regional High School Advanced Placement (AP) test-takers who were eligible for college credit due to qualifying scores (three or higher on a five-point…

BEACON FALLS — At Woodland Regional High School, President Barack Obama’s contentious address to schoolchildren Tuesday was met more with enthusiasm than with the vitriol propagated by right-wing pundits for…