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State stops paying Boston for repairs to Hyde Park High School
By adamg on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 9:53am
The Globe reports a state authority has stopped paying Boston for renovations to Hyde Park High School because the school is shut.
When BPS officials realized shutting the school meant they were going to lose millions of dollars over several years for work they'd already paid for, they scrambled to find a way to re-open the building - at first announcing plans to relocate Boston Latin Academy there, then dropping that and announcing plans to move New Mission High School and Boston Community Leadership Academy.
State officials remained unconvinced they were getting their money's worth and stopped a scheduled $1.5-million annual payment, the Globe reports.
Meanwhile, the plans to move the two high schools to Hyde Park - and a series of other musical-chair moves - could be in jeopardy because city councilors, who must sign off on $20 million in borrowing for the work, have started raising questions about parts of the move, such as relocating the Mission Hill K-8 School to Jamaica Plain.
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So the city council finally
So the city council finally developed some brass ones to stand up to the Mayor's Office? I wonder what the retribution will be.
Kind of BS though.
Larger school systems like Boston have the ablility to use different building for schools and move kids around. They have to be punished because they want to revamp a school that currently isn't in use?
I can understand if they renovated and then decided to use the property as a library or something, but a school building is a school building, as long as their intentions were clear from the start, I don't see the big deal.
Their intentions were not clear
When they shut Hyde Park High, they had no plans for the building. They only came up with the relocation plan AFTER the state called them out.
I guess I'm ok
With the fact that the building still belonged to the school department. If the school was in great shape, they probably wouldn't have left. Other towns don't have the option to leave school buildings empty like Boston can.
I demand an independent
I demand an independent investigation!