Teacher Assignments

Hello Doolittle Families,

Next year there will be some teacher assignment changes at Doolittle School.

Mike Juliano will teach 6th grade.

Tracy Ajello will teach 4th grade.

Jennifer Guerin will teach 5th grade.

Mara Weed will teach 2nd grade.

Jennifer Crowley will teach 4th grade.

Laura Robison, our music teacher, has informed us that she will not return to Doolittle next year. We will miss her and wish her all the best.

Last night the Board of Education unanimously voted to appoint Kelly Grillo as the Principal of Norton School! Mrs. Grillo has been such an important part of our school for a number of years. We will miss her and wish her well in her new position. Norton School is very lucky!

A year or so ago, the Town Council approved a study to examine all school facilities in Cheshire. The report is now complete. There are a number of recommendations and options made by Perkins-Eastman, the company who performed the study. You can see the proposals here:

facility-master-plan

The Chorus and Orchestra Concert on Wednesday was excellent!

Budget Update

Hello Doolittle Families,

The Doolittle PTA needs help. If you are interested in filling a board position or would like to fill a position jointly with a friend - please let us know.

You can email me - rhinckley@cheshire.k12.ct.us

Or Melissa Convertito  - mconvertito@gmail.com

Mr. Detrick sent out a budget update (below) on Friday 5/6/16:

I wanted to update you about the 2016-2017 budget for the Cheshire Public Schools.  Based on the Town Council’s Appropriation for the Cheshire Public Schools, the Board of Education approved the necessary changes and adopted its final budget for 2016/17 to meet the approved funding level of $69,395,510 which is a 1.57% increase over the 2015/16 budget.

The approved budget for the next fiscal year requires reductions to our teaching staff of three positions.  We plan to meet this reduction through anticipated teacher retirements at the elementary level and due to declining enrollment, we will still be able to maintain good class sizes.  While the budget for various accounts were not funded at the level originally requested by the Board of Education, lower medical benefit costs, savings in utility and fuel costs and reductions in carefully selected line items will enable the school district to purchase the additional grade level set of Chromebook laptops for 9th grade students allowing the One-to-One Learning Initiative to continue next year.  In addition, the purchase of replacement band uniforms will be supported in part from our Peck Jones Grant and by allocating replacement equipment funds.  The expansion of world language in the elementary level, however, was not funded. Our World Language Task Force will continue to meet to strategize various implementation options for consideration in next year's budget.

Doolittle’s Beautiful Courtyard