Wallingford approves BoE budget

Wallingford, Conn. (WTNH) - A controversial school budget in Wallingford was passed Monday night by the Board of Education. The 2010-11 budget plan calls for over 80 layoffs.

Also part of the budget, a so-called 'pay-to-play' for sports. It will cost students $100 to participate in every sport. The 80 layoffs includes 40 teaching positions.  

"Without those paras, without those teachers and the effort they put forward every day, I don't know where my children would be," said Mariefi O'Malley of Wallingford.

"A school system is a business; a $90 million business and we need to have it run like that or we will be in the same spot next year," said Gina Cewe-Barrett of Wallingford.

Not included in the budget - an earlier plan to reconfigure the town's schools.

The budget now goes to the mayor.