BOSTON – Formula changes that would let more state money flow to local school districts won praise Friday from labor and school leaders who also acknowledged that covering the nearly $432 million cost of the revisions poses a challenge.
Teachers union representatives, school committee members and administrators urged the Joint Committee on Education to support a bill that would implement adjustments to the school finance formula that were recommended last fall by the Foundation Budget Review Commission.
BOSTON – The fate of the cost-burdened Green Line Extension depends in large part on the new budget that will be presented to transportation overseers at a meeting Monday.
Last August, Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack paused the trolley line extension to Somerville and Medford, warning that the prior cost estimate of $1.99 billion had jumped by between $700 million and $1 billion.
