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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Board of Education candidate Hugo Alves. The Republican is one of eight total candidates seeking a seat on the school board Nov. 7. He’s in a contested two-person race for a two-year Board of Ed term. Alves was elected to the school board in 2021.
For New Canaan High School Principal Bill Egan, there’s no better day than the first day of school. Newly arrived freshmen and returning students “bring life back into the building,” Egan told members of the Board of Education during their regular meeting Tuesday night. This academic year, NCHS welcomed nearly 1,270 students—including 52 who are new to New Canaan— who brought “ the energy only they could bring,” Egan said during a report on school openings.
“I want to thank you,” he told the Board during the meeting, held in the Wagner Room at NCHS. “It truly is an honor and privilege to be a New Canaan High School principal. There is no better job in the world than being a high school principal.
Selectman Nick Williams on Tuesday pushed to have New Canaan resident Matt Campbell appointed to fill a vacancy on the Board of Education. The school board has had an open seat since former Chair Dan Bennett, a Republican, resigned in April.
In a decision that drew criticism from some Democrats on the Board of Ed, Republicans on the school board subsequently decided to forgo filling the open seat, saying it could interfere with the party’s July Caucus. Under Section 7-4 of the Town Charter, the Board of Ed can fill a vacancy prior to the next municipal election, where a successor is elected to fill the balance of the term (Bennett’s four-year term expires in 2025). “If the Board of Education fails to fill any vacancy which occurs on the Board within 90 days after the vacancy occurs, the Board of Selectmen may fill such vacancy until the next biennial municipal election,” according to the Charter. Williams during the Board of Selectmen’s Sept.
This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Board of Education candidate Lauren Connolly Nussbaum. The Democrat is one of eight total candidates seeking a seat on the school board Nov. 7. There are four four-year seats up for election. There also is a contested two-person race for a two-year Board of Ed term.
The Board of Education during its most recent meeting voted to update the district’s goals and objectives, including new language around one of its major and most widely discussed initiatives in recent years. During its Aug. 21 meeting, the Board voted in favor of a number of updated objectives including “begin implementation of short- and long-range plans for integration of the renovated Dome into the student experience K-12.”
Deputy Superintendent Dr. Jill Correnty called the renovated planetarium, known as “the Dome,” “one of the most exciting” areas of the regularly updated goals and objectives document. “Obviously the Dome is moving along,” Correnty said at the meeting, held in the Wagner Room at New Canaan High School. “It’s kind of exciting to walk in and see the renovations taking place and we’re very excited.