Massachusetts State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, trying to head off what he calls "Taj Mahal" high schools, says he wants cities and towns to begin using off-the-shelf building designs that could cut school-project costs by 30 percent. The goal, Cahill says, is to shave tens of millions of dollars from the cost of building new schools, which have reached as high as $197.5 million for the new Newton North High School, a lightning rod of discontent over the escalating price tags for such projects.
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