Supervisory Union

Supervisory union budget to grow by 16% for next year

By Mike Eldred
STAMFORD- Windham Southwest Supervisory Union board members approved a $7.5 million budget for fiscal year 2026 at a special meeting on Thursday, January 2.
The $7,545,749 budget for 2026 is an increase of more than $1 million, or about $16%, over the supervisory...

Looking back at the stories that defined last year

Crisis at Windham Southwest Supervisory Union topped 2024 news
DEERFIELD VALLEY- The biggest story of 2024 unfolded slowly throughout the year, starting in January when Windham Southwest Supervisory Union Superintendent Barbara Anne Komons-Montroll announced she would be...

Superintendent says special ed numbers not adding up

WILMINGTON- Superintendent Bill Bazyk told board members he was able to shave more than $743,000 off the draft 2026 supervisory union budget at a special Windham Southwest Supervisory Union Board meeting Tuesday evening.
The bad news? That still leaves an increase of more than $932,000...

Final fiscal figures still not finished

School district books not closed out
WILMINGTON- Windham Southwest Supervisory Union’s constituent districts are still without their final budget figures for fiscal year 2024, which ended on June 30.
At a supervisory union board meeting on Wednesday, October 2,...

Supervisory union hopes to claw back $1.4 million in unclaimed grants

WILMINGTON- Superintendent Bill Bazyk updated Twin Valley School Board members on financial and other matters at their regular meeting Tuesday evening.
Bazyk told board members that the supervisory union’s finance office is on track to recover between $1.3 and $1.4 million in funding from...

Supervisory union continues to find financial failings

WHITINGHAM- Past financial mismanagement at Windham Southwest Supervisory Union was even worse than initially estimated, superintendent Bill Bazyk told Twin Valley School Board members at their regular meeting Tuesday evening.
The business office remains tied up with the backlog, Bazyk...

Supervisory union woes called “some of the worst”

WILMINGTON- Windham Southwest Supervisory Union board members heard frank assessments of the current state of the supervisory union, as well as an analysis of the issues that led to its recent managerial and operational crisis.
Acting superintendent and consultant Kevin Dirth said the...

State steps in to lend a hand

Officials trying to sort out WSWSU mess, including fund contributions WILMINGTON- A team from the Agency of Education, including interim secretary of education Zoie Saunders, were at Windham Southwest Supervisory Union this week, as part of a locally-driven effort to reset the...

Barbara Anne Komons-Montroll

Supervisory union suspends leader, hires interim district superintendent

Series of emergency meetings held this month
WILMINGTON- Windham Southwest Supervisory Union Board Chair Erika Bailey announced on Wednesday, April 17, that the board has taken action to place Superintendent Barbara Anne Komons-Montroll on leave.
The board has...

Two more school burglaries

DEERFIELD VALLEY- Police are investigating a series of burglaries at schools within Windham Southwest Supervisory Union.
At the end of October and in early November, Twin Valley Middle High School reported two break-ins in which the perpetrator took food items and a small amount of money....