BOSTON — Proponents of two ballot initiatives aimed at reforming Massachusetts public education dropped off boxes of signed petitions to Secretary of State William Galvin's office on Wednesday.
Sponsors of measures that would expand the number of public charter schools and prevent the state from continuing to rely on federal Common Core educational standards each said they had submitted more than the 64,750 certified signatures required to move the proposals forward.
The MBTA has notified several firms working on the over-budget Green Line Extension project that it is acting to end their current contracts, and the agency plans to install a new project manager as part of a restructuring of the project management team.
The move comes after the MassDOT Board and the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board met publicly and privately on Wednesday to consider options to salvage the project, the cost for which has ballooned by about 50 percent, or $1 billion, higher than budgeted.
