A statewide initiative to equip Massachusetts schools with state-of-the-art science labs was highlighted Thursday in Springfield.
A $32 million science wing with 12 new labs, cutting-edge classrooms, and a greenhouse was dedicated at Springfield Central High School.
The state funded 80 percent of the project. Massachusetts Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, who chairs the school building authority, said the new facility has the tools students need to succeed in the 21st Century.
" Massachusetts is known for its brains. That is where the growth has been and that is where it will continue to be," she said.
Forty-percent of Central’s 2,000 students are taking advanced placement courses, one of the highest percentages of any urban high school in Massachusetts.
