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About: Dr. David Title

Dr. Title joins our Fairfield community with 32 years of experience in public education. After graduating from Dartmouth College, he began his career in education as a high school history teacher, and then vice principal. Dr. Title continued with his education by then attending Harvard where he received his doctorate. After Harvard, Dr. Title returned to Connecticut in 1990 and became the assistant superintendent in Waterford. Then, in 2002, Dr. Title became the superintendent in Bloomfield and stayed there until 2010.

Recent Posts by Dr. David Title

Odds and Ends

Finishing off some loose ends on the 2013-2014 as it made its way from my desk to the final RTM approval: The original budget increase that I proposed was 4.83 percent higher than the current year.  Negative health insurance experience accounted for a huge portion of that increase.  The budget then goes on a tourContinue Reading

Budget Season is over

At approximately 11:30 pm last night budget season ended.  The Board of Education made two adjustments to my recommended list of cuts but otherwise the list of cuts posted on our website from the May 7 meeting will now be enacted starting July 1, 2013.  These cuts were necessary to reduce the Board’s operating budgetContinue Reading

Midnight Madness

No, this doesn’t refer to the opening practice of the NCAA basketball season — it refers to the ending time of the RTM meeting last night.  Actually, the meeting ended later than midnight, but the discussion of the budget finished at midnight.  The RTM tried to shoehorn in 3 appeals of Board of Finance budgetContinue Reading

Update on Budget Process

So by now you probably know that the Board of Finance reduced our budget request by $1,250,000 and our 2013-2014 budget now stands at 1.85 percent higher than the current year.  Last night we had a meeting of the full RTM (about 35 members out of 50 attended) at which Mr. Dwyer and I presentedContinue Reading

Budget Update

We are about to have a few whirlwind days on the budget front, then take a pause. Last Friday the First Selectman and Board of Finance Chairman announced that they had reduced the tax increase from an estimated 6.3 percent to an estimated 4.8 percent.  While I do not know precisely what adjustments were madeContinue Reading

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