By Viktoria Sundqvist
Middletown Press
New Haven’s school superintendent — who oversees the third biggest district in the state — is only the 15th highest paid school chief in Connecticut, a recent comparison shows.
Reginald Mayo earns $226,921 per year for a district with almost 20,000 students. Split into a group of superintendents who oversee districts with 10,000 students or more, Mayo is still only the fifth highest paid with Hartford, Bridgeport, West Hartford and Norwalk school chiefs all making more money.

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By Viktoria Sundqvist

Middletown Press

Meal allowances, housing help, generous mileage reimbursements and bonuses of up to $30,000 a year are some perks Connecticut school superintendents get in addition to their annual salaries.
“It is important to treat superintendents in a manner consistent, as much as possible, with the treatment that chief executive officers receive in other fields,” said Joseph Cirasuolo, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents. “To do otherwise would make the task of finding qualified people who are interested in being superintendents even more difficult than it is at present.”

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By Randall Beach
Register Staff
NEW HAVEN — Authorities investigating the slaying of Yale University undergraduate Suzanne Jovin, which occurred 14 years ago this month, have recently looked into tips from several New Haven-area residents that a mentally disturbed Yale graduate student might have been the killer.
But even if this man were the one police have long sought, he could never be arrested nor put on trial: he died earlier this year in a bizarre way on Interstate 95 in what could have been a suicide.

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By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo
Investigations Editor
mtuccitto@nhregister.com
DERBY — A man accused of lying to police about the location of missing man William “Billy” Smolinski’s body swore and threw a tantrum in Superior Court Wednesday, after he learned a plea bargain offer was for more prison time than he had anticipated.

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