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Darien Public Schools

Board of Ed OKs Biggest Item in the Town Budgets for Each of the Next Three Years

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Under the next labor union agreement between Darien teachers and the school district, which hasn’t received final town approval, the town’s total bill for teachers’ wages would rise 3.4 percent in each of the next three fiscal years, from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2020. The first vote to approve a Darien teachers labor union contract already has been taken by the Board of Education at its Nov. 9 meeting. The contract also will need approval from the town Board of Finance and Representative Town Meeting. A lot of information about the new contract, along with an administrators’ union contract passed together with it (and which would start at the same time but end a year later, on June 30, 2021), has not yet been released by either the Board of Education or Darien Public Schools officials, including estimates of either the total cost of the increases or the overall total cost of the salaries and benefits in the contracts.

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Dorothy Jill McCammon 5-23-16

Darien GOP Caucus Endorses McCammon & McNamara, Registrar Visi and 8 JPs

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Dorothy J. “Jill” McCammon, who is ending her term as co-chairman of the umbrella organization of town parent-teacher organizations has been nominated by Republicans to fill an uncontested seat on the Board of Education. McCammon joins board member Christa S. McNamara, who was nominated to run for re-election this year, and a Democratic candidate. Board members David Martens, a Republican, and Callie Sullivan, a Democrat, are stepping down. (McNamara was not at the caucus — she’s in Sri Lanka at a sailing event, according to caucus members.)

McNamara and McCammon, together with Republican Registrar John Visi will be on the ballot this November, together with eight candidates for justice of the peace: David Anthony Brown, Eugene F. Coyle, Janet F. Grogan, Cathy A. Hauck, Eric H. Joosten, Brian J. Rayhill, Jayme J. Stevenson, and state Rep. Terrie E. Wood. “I think that our school system is in a tremendous amount of transition, and I want to be a part of that,” McCammon said after the brief GOP Caucus in Town Hall Monday night.