New Britain school board president: ‘We’re at our last dollars’
New Britain educators are pressing parents to begin lobbying the common council for a budget increase, warning that another year of flat funding will force program cutbacks, smaller staffing and possibly even the shutdown of a school.

"Tell your friends ‘you come, you be the voice,’ " said Superintendent Nancy Sarra, who argued that local families should push the council to give the school the same cost-of-living budget increases that have gone to city agencies over the last several years. I need you to come to a common council meeting. This is the time to say ‘We’re done, you have to fund education.’ It’s not too late now.”