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Article: Build new schools but reform first.(Editorial)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- April 18, 2004
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If real reform of the out-of-control school building assistance program is the result of competing legislative and administration plans, everybody wins, especially the taxpayer.
Here's where the two sides agree: The state can't afford the $9 billion-plus school building liability (the sum of local projects currently being funded and projects on the wait list) without reform, and it's unfair to penalize communities on the wait list by changing the rules in mid-stream.
That's not a bad starting place to find a workable solution.
Gov. Mitt Romney's school building assistance plan, filed in January, would meet the state's current school construction ...