The City Council's Ways and Means Committee holds a hearing on Tuesday on Charles Yancey's proposal to borrow $110 million to build a new high school in Mattapan.
The School Committee voted earlier this year to close several schools, including the former Hyde Park High School.
Yancey has pushed the idea of a Mattapan High School for years, arguing it's unfair that Mattapan doesn't have one (Ed. note: Neither does Roslindale).
At a City Council meeting in February, Yancey argued a new Mattapan High School would also reduce the number of students citywide now forced to go to schools without cafeterias, science labs and gyms, the sort of things that suburban high-school students take for granted. "I know that many of our high-school students are at a competitive disadvantage," he said.
Yancey continues to base his call on what is now a 15-year-old blue-ribbon report calling for construction of two new high schools in Boston. Since then, the school department has started plans to renovate the Quincy Upper School - housed in a former elementary school - and wants to move Boston Latin Academy to the old Hyde Park High to make room for two Fenway-based high schools at what is now the BLA campus.
The committee hearing on Yancey's proposal starts at 6 p.m. in the council's fifth-floor chambers at City Hall.
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