MSBA
Commits State Funds to Build New Minuteman High School
BOSTON – Plans for a new Minuteman High School have moved another step
closer to reality.
Meeting at its offices in downtown Boston on January 27, the
Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) Board of Directors voted
unanimously to authorize its Executive Director to enter into a project funding
agreement with Minuteman for the new $144.9 million educational facility. MSBA is expected to pay 44.75% of eligible
project costs -- up to a maximum of $44,139,213.
Immediately prior to the vote, State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg
commended the school for the quality of its academic and technical programs and
encouraged parents to give the school a closer look. Treasurer Goldberg serves as chair of the
MSBA board of Directors.
The Treasurer made a public appeal to parents in the district to consider
sending their children to Minuteman. “It
would behoove a lot of families,” she said, “to really look at the Minuteman
programs.” Minuteman’s technical
programs “give kids the skills they need for the good jobs in the
Commonwealth,” she said.
Goldberg also told Superintendent Edward Bouquillon “You have
tremendous academic programs.”
She said she had visited Minuteman’s Girls in STEM Summer Camp, a
program she described as “very exciting.”
Minuteman must now secure local approval of the project, a process that
is not expected to start until after all 16 member towns hold Special Town
Meetings to ratify a new Minuteman Regional Agreement. The final Special Town Meeting is scheduled
February 24. Sometime after that, the
Minuteman School Committee will vote to bond for the project.
The new school, to be located on District-owned land in Lincoln, will
include two Career Academies with 16 career and technical programs and a robust
offering of academic programs, including Advanced Placement and Honors courses,
foreign languages, music, art, and sports.
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