Tag: School budget
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What is Harry Fisher hiding?
Special Edition BET Republicans push through secret school budget cuts On October 21, on a party-line vote, Republicans on the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) pushed through budget guidelines for next year that include another cut to Greenwich Public Schools—and now they want to keep the guidelines hidden. Here’s what happened: 1: Republican BET members…
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BET shocker! Schools set to be cut again
Special Edition Republicans approve guidelines that would slash more teachers and funds It felt like Groundhog Day. Six months after a Republican majority on Greenwich’s Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) rammed through a chaotic $4 million school budget cut on a party-line vote, they did a similar thing Tuesday night. They approved so-called budgetary guidelines that would cut…
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THE 6 VERSUS THE 60,000
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 42 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Finance board Republicans’ power grab exceeds their authority Last week’s town budget, which was passed with “nuclear bomb” cuts and without a single Democratic vote, targeted everyone from seniors in the Witherell nursing home and children in our public schools to ice skaters looking for a new…
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Finance board GOP goes rogue, kneecaps town services
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 41 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Public schools set for the guillotine next An emboldened right wing majority on the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) ran roughshod over town projects Thursday, cutting and delaying initiatives on party line votes with little regard for constituents or consequences. The effort seemed designed to hit…
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DOGE chainsaw slashes into town budget
Special Edition Democrats stand fast but “nuclear bomb” budget cuts are coming In a surprise move, today the six Republicans who make up the majority on our town finance board dropped an unprecedented list of draconian cuts to our town’s proposed budget—cuts that would devastate everyone from seniors to school children, and ice skaters to homeowners…
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Political divide on town budget items reveals diverging priorities
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 40 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Republicans hack at fire truck maintenance, sidewalk disability access, flood protection You don’t have to be an engineer to see that Greenwich’s Grass Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, poking out into Greenwich Harbor, will need to be protected against rising seas and stormwater flooding. A proposed project to ring…
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Public schools are under attack and local Republicans are tossing the grenades
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 39 Weekly Newsletter Delivery From shuttering the US Dept. of Ed., to crippling Greenwich Public Schools, look no further than the GOP in our own town It’s a Greenwich resident who is dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, and the result could cost Connecticut $320 million, and Greenwich $3 million, in assistance aimed…