Lynn, Mass., charter school plans new facility

FromThe Boston Globe: A Lynn, Mass., charter school is preparing to break ground this fall on a $25 million middle and high school building in the city’s Highlands neighborhood. KIPP Academy Lynn is buying a 5.5-acre site from the the Veterans of Foreign Wars for $1.35 million. The academy plans to raze the VFW building and construct a 68,000-square-foot facility to house its existing middle school and its planned high school.