Embattled firm studying borough schools
NAUGATUCK — Four months after the borough hired the Hartford-based firm JCJ Architecture to perform a facilities utilization study of the school district, the...
Facebook a catalyst for BOE unrest
NAUGATUCK — Social media sites like Facebook have proven to be not only a way for old friends to reconnect or current ones to...
Teachers vote ‘no confidence’ school chief
NAUGATUCK — Teachers overwhelmingly condemned the performance of embattled Superintendent Dr. John Tindall-Gibson Thursday, while the school board continued to search for ways to...
Board of Education crisis coming to a head
NAUGATUCK — It's three months into the academic year, approaching the halfway point of the fiscal year and the school board is without a...
Woodland math team ranks fourth
BEACON FALLS — An amount of money is increased by 15 percent of itself. This new amount is then reduced by 40 percent. At...
Teachers’ jobs could be safe
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. Walmart rewards borough teachers
NAUGATUCK — It won’t solve the borough’s education budget crisis, but a new Walmart program will help 10 teachers at Central Avenue School...
Controller to manage BOE budget
NAUGATUCK — The borough will have one business manager to oversee both the school and town budgets, at least temporarily.
The Board of Education on...
Life experiences shape top teacher
BEACON FALLS — In the early 1960s, when Region 16 Teacher of the Year Award recipient John Polletta was in elementary school, there were...
Woodland’s AP scores outpace state’s, nation’s
BEACON FALLS — The percentage of Woodland Regional High School Advanced Placement (AP) test-takers who were eligible for college credit due to qualifying scores...
