Ed Kennedy files bill to offset construction overruns at Lowell High School

LOWELL — State Sen. Ed Kennedy hopes that legislation he recently filed will help Lowell and other communities in the commonwealth address the cost overruns to their school rebuilding projects. The bill, currently listed as Senate Docket 2395, is an act relative to increased material costs in school construction projects, and would earmark no less than $150 million of federal COVID-19 recovery funds for the School Modernization and Reconstruction Trust Fund. The Massachusetts School Building Authority uses that trust to fund school building projects.