Cost for overhauling city’s schools could top $1b, Walsh says [View all]

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“It’s going to be our first comprehensive school capital plan in 20 years,” Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh said.

Cost for overhauling city’s schools could top $1b, Walsh says
By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Staff September 29, 2015

Mayor Martin J. Walsh pledged Tuesday to bring the city’s deteriorating public schools into the 21st century, but he warned that the effort won’t be cheap.

“You’re probably talking over a billion dollars,” Walsh said at an event at the McKay K-8 School in East Boston. “That’s just a rough estimate.”

Walsh said 65 percent of Boston school buildings were constructed before World War II, and fewer than half have been renovated.

The event Tuesday marked the formal launch of a 10-year master plan for Boston public schools facilities that Walsh announced in his State of the City address in January.