Massachusetts Statutes

Section 12A. For the purposes of sections twelve A to twelve C, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: ''Disabled person'', a person who is unable to engage in substantial gainful activity by reason of medically determinable physical or mental impairmen…

Section 12B. There shall be within the executive office of human services a bureau of transitional planning. There is also hereby established within the executive office of human services a committee, to be known as the transitional advisory committee, which shall meet on a regul…

Section 12C. A disabled person who has been receiving special education under the provisions of this chapter shall be eligible, subject to appropriation, upon graduation from high school or upon attaining the age of twenty-two, whichever occurs first, to receive habilitative serv…

Section 16. A school age child with a disability, in this section called a student, who is completing the twelfth grade but who has not yet earned the competency determination as required under section 1D of chapter 69 for high school graduation, shall be allowed to participate f…

Section 17. (a) Subject to appropriation, the department of higher education shall develop and administer a discretionary grant program, which shall include planning and implementation grants, to provide money to school committees and public institutions of higher education partn…

Section 2. The board shall promulgate, jointly with the departments of mental health, developmental services, public health, children and families and youth services, the Massachusetts commission for the blind and the commission for the deaf and hard of hearing, regulations regar…

Section 2A. (a) There shall be a bureau of special education appeals which shall provide adjudicatory hearings, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution as determined by the bureau of special education appeals for resolution of disputes between and among parent…

Section 3. In accordance with the regulations, guidelines and directives of the department issued jointly with the departments of mental health, developmental services, public health, youth services, and the commission for the blind and the commission for the deaf and hard of hea…

Section 3A. (a) A school committee with four thousand or more children enrolled in its school system shall appoint a person to be its administrator of special education. Such administrator shall devote full time to the duties involved in supervising the provision of all special e…

Section 4. The school committee of any city, town or school district may, to meet its obligations under section three, with the approval of the department enter into an agreement with any other school committee to jointly provide special education or, subject to the consent of th…

Section 5. Any school committee which provides or arranges for the provision of special education pursuant to the provisions of section three shall pay for such special education personnel, materials and equipment, tuition, room and board, transportation, rent and consultant serv…

Section 5A. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: ''Approved costs threshold'', $45,793 in fiscal year 2020 and adjusted by the foundation inflation index, as defined in section 2 of chapter 70, in each subsequent year. ''Ins…

Section 5B. (a) There is hereby established a pooled risk program for extraordinary and unanticipated special education costs to be administered by the department. The board of education shall promulgate regulations necessary for the operation of the program. (b) A local or regio…

Section 5C. (a) There is hereby established a zero interest loan program for extraordinary and unanticipated special education costs, to be administered by the department. The board of education shall promulgate regulations necessary for the operation of this program. (b) Local a…

Section 6. School committees shall annually report to the department, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the department, the assignment by sex, national origin, economic status, race and religion, of children by age level to special education classes and the distribution of c…

Section 7. No results of standardized or local tests of ability, aptitude, attitude, affect, achievement, or aspiration may be used exclusively in the selection of children for referral, diagnosis, or evaluation. Such tests shall be approved by the department in accordance with r…

Section 8. If a school age child with a disability attends a school approved by the department within or without the city or town of residence of the parent or guardian, the school committee of the town where the child resides may be required by the department to provide transpor…

Section 9. The department, after consultation with the departments of mental health, developmental services and public health, shall define the circumstances in which school committees may be required to provide special classes, instruction periods or other special education prog…

Section 9A. The department of education shall provide a workshop curriculum on the rights of students, their parents and guardians under the special education laws of the commonwealth and the federal government to each school district in the commonwealth to be used by such school…

Section 1. The commissioner of education shall prepare and send forms for the registration of minors required by section two, the school registers, blank forms for school returns required by section three, and the annual report of the department of education, as soon as ready for…

Section 2. The school committee of each town shall ascertain and record the names, ages and such other information as may be required by the department of education, of all minors residing therein between five and sixteen, and of all minors over sixteen who do not meet the requir…

Section 2A. The superintendent of schools of each town shall file annually on or before May first with the commissioner of education, on forms provided by the department of education, a sworn statement reporting the number of pupils whose parents or guardians were residents of th…

Section 3. The superintendent of schools shall annually on or before September fifteenth transmit the school returns to the commissioner, signed and sworn to by him, containing the following information together with any other information required by the commissioner in accordanc…

Section 4. The committee shall annually make a detailed report of the condition of the public schools, containing such statements or suggestions relative thereto as it considers necessary or proper. It shall cause said report to be printed, for the use of the inhabitants, in octa…

Section 5. If a superintendent of schools fails, within the prescribed time, to make both the returns and the report required by law, the commissioner shall forthwith notify the chairman of the school committee thereof, and he shall immediately transmit the same to him. If a retu…

Section 6. A town may request and receive an extension of time for submission of its report and returns from the commissioner for cause. Any town which has not received an extension of time and whose report and returns are not received by the commissioner on or before September t…

Section 7. A town suffering such a forfeiture through the default of its school committee may withhold the compensation of the committee.

Section 8. The school committee shall cause the registers of daily attendance to be faithfully kept under the direction of the superintendent who shall make due return thereof to the school committee or to such person as it may designate. All registers shall be kept at the school…

Section 9. A copy of each report filed with the commissioner of education under this chapter shall also be filed at the same time with the chief executive officer of the city or town, but in the case of a regional school district with the chief executive officers of all the membe…

Section 1. The state universities, as established by section 5 of chapter 15A shall provide educational programs, research, extension, and continuing education services in the liberal, fine and applied arts and sciences and other related disciplines through the master's degree le…

Section 10. All accounts of the state universities and community colleges under the direction of the trustees including the accounts of all property or funds received, held or disbursed under any provision of section fourteen and all accounts of any person doing business as a boo…

Section 11. The trustees shall prepare and submit a detailed budget in such form and manner as the governor and general court may direct.

Section 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the general court shall annually appropriate such sums as it deems necessary for the maintenance, operation and support of each state university; and such appropriations shall be made available to each state …

Section 13. A complete financial report covering all receipts and expenditures shall be made annually to the governor and the general court. Monthly statements of receipts and expenditures shall be made to the state comptroller. The trustees shall see that there is maintained an …

Section 14. The trustees shall administer property held in accordance with special trusts, and shall also administer grants or devises of land and gifts or bequests of personal property made to the commonwealth for the use of a state university, and execute said trusts, investing…

Section 15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law of the contrary, the trustees or officers of a state university designated by them shall have the authority to make any purchase or purchases in the amount of five hundred dollars or less, and to purchase without limitation o…

Section 16. As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: ''Professional staff'', all officers of the division of state universities, and all persons, except those whose duties are clerical, custodial, securi…

Section 17. The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the travel policy of a state university; provided, however, that said policy shall require coordination with the state purchasing agent to insure cost-effective utilization of the group purchasing power of the …

Section 18. The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus or other land of a state university and may provide reasonable penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations. The trustees may appoint as police o…

Section 19. The institutions of higher learning under the jurisdiction of the board of trustees of state universities shall be those institutions in the state university segment established by section 5 of chapter 15A.

Section 1A. The board of trustees shall fix the amount of tuition fee to be paid by each student at any of the state universities; provided, however, that said board shall in no case fix the tuition fee for full tuition during the school year at less than one hundred dollars; pro…

Section 1B. The board of trustees may fix the amount of student activity fee to be paid by each student at any of the state universities. All receipts from student activities shall be retained by the president of the state university in a revolving fund or revolving funds, and sh…

Section 1C. The trustees shall determine the time and place of their meetings and the manner of giving notice thereof.

Section 1E. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law, the board of bank incorporation or the commissioner of banks is hereby authorized to allow a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, to establish and maintain a branch on the grounds of an…

Section 1F. The board of trustees shall not allow any funds for legislative agents as defined in section thirty-nine of chapter three or organizations attempting to influence legislation as defined in section forty-four of said chapter three to be assessed on student tuition bill…

Section 2. The department may provide for agricultural education in the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.