Board of Education

Two-Year Board of Ed Candidates Debate Enrollment, Priorities, Classroom Topics

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The major priorities for the school district are preparing for an expected enrollment boom, safety and “continually looking forward to ensure that our curriculum is gradually changing, so that we are keeping pace with changing society,” according to one candidate for a two-year term on the Board of Education. Democrat Josh Kaye said during a League of Women Voters of New Canaan debate that aired Monday night that when he was in school he “didn’t learn how to use a slide rule, even though that had been important for my parents.”

“Because the world changed,” Kaye said. “The world didn’t stop changing in 2000. So we need to look forward. We need to be thinking actively about the skills and abilities our kids need to graduate so that they can be prepared to thrive.”

Responding to the same question about his concrete goals on the Board of Ed, Kaye’s opponent in the Nov.

Board of Education

Podcast: Board of Ed Candidate Josh Kaye

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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 Josh Kaye. The Democrat 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. There also are four four-year seats up for election.

Amy Murphy Carroll

‘We’re All in This Together’: New Canaan Democrats Rally at Annual BBQ [PHOTOS]

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Amy Murphy Carroll, the Democratic candidate for the town’s highest elected position in the upcoming municipal election, told a room full of fellow party members Sunday that in their 27 years in New Canaan, she and husband John have gotten to know many people. “Worked with them, volunteered with them, and just made so many friends across the town,” Murphy Carroll said during the annual DTC BBQ, held at Carriage Barn Arts Center. “Different backgrounds, different interests, different professions, and—oh, gasp—different political parties. And when it comes down to it, all my interactions with people here, we’re just neighbors. We’re friends, we’re fellow New Canaanites.

Amy Murphy Carroll

Election 2023: Democrats Put Up Three for BOE; Murphy Carroll Accepts First Selectman Nomination

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A Democrat seeking election to the Board of Education on Tuesday night described New Canaan as “a large community with a ton of tiny communities within it.”

For Lauren Connollly Nussbaum and her husband Matt, town residents for 10 years whose three daughters—ages 8, 10 and 13—attend South and Saxe Middle Schools, those communities include one in special education that they’ve found “remarkable and humbling,” she said during the Democratic Caucus, held at Town Hall. 

Other communities “may be in the sports world, in a house of worship, that may be in the Beautification League,” Connolly Nussbaum told 75-plus Democrats in attendance . 

She continued: “Wherever people in New Canaan are, we are building communities. And that is what I want to do on the Board of Education. Continue to build community and include everyone.”

Connolly Nussbaum added, “I feel ready. I feel nervous. I feel excited.