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§ 1 |
Maintenance; double sessions; subjects; twelve-month school year |
§ 11/2 |
Definitions; applicability of Sec. 2 of chapter 70 |
§ 1A |
Period of silence |
§ 1B |
Voluntary prayer |
§ 1C |
Workshops on rights of students and their parents under special education laws of the commonwealth and the federal government |
§ 1D |
Prohibition of adoption or implementation of policy or code in sports or athletic events that impairs or prohibits hairstyle historically associated with race |
§ 2 |
Teaching of history and social science; professional development; student-led civic projects; commonwealth civics challenge |
§ 2A |
Use of tobacco products within school buildings or facilities or on school grounds |
§ 2B |
Courses in American sign language |
§ 2C |
Implementation of policy and discipline code addressing teen dating violence in public schools |
§ 3 |
Physical education |
§ 4 |
High schools; maintenance; diplomas awarded to veterans |
§ 4A |
Failure to keep schools open for required period; penalty |
§ 6 |
Education in out-of-town high schools |
§ 6A |
Admission of students from outside commonwealth |
§ 6B |
A military-connected student school enrollment |
§ 7A |
Transportation of pupils; payment of costs; limitations |
§ 7B |
Transportation of pupils; reimbursement of costs; determination of amount; use of funds |
§ 7C |
Bus transportation programs; financial assistance |
§ 10 |
Expenses of physically disabled children |
§ 11 |
High school; definition |
§ 13 |
Requested courses; school committee approval |
§ 13D |
High schools; required subjects; driver training |
§ 13F |
Broadcast and television facilities; cost of program; executive committee for educational television |
§ 13G |
Executive committee for educational television; rules and regulations; personnel |
§ 13H |
Educational television program fund; accounts and reports |
§ 13I |
Executive committee for educational television; powers and duties |
§ 14 |
Regional school district planning committee; creation; membership |
§ 14A |
Duties of planning board |
§ 14B |
Regional school districts; formation; procedure |
§ 14C |
Lease or sale of property to regional school districts |
§ 14D |
Regional school district planning board; agreement; approval of indebtedness |
§ 14E |
Regional school district committee membership options |
§ 15 |
Acceptance of organization provisions by electorate |
§ 16 |
Regional school districts; status; powers and duties |
§ 16A |
Regional district school committee; selection, powers and duties of officers; signing of payroll and accounts payable warrants; audits |
§ 16B |
Budgets; apportionment of expenses |
§ 16B1/2 |
Excess and deficiency fund; surplus funds used to reduce assessments |
§ 16C |
Regional school districts; school transportation |
§ 16D |
Aid from state |
§ 16D1/2 |
Monies received as nonresident tuition or reimbursements from commonwealth for foster care children |
§ 16E |
Regional school districts; audits; payment of costs |
§ 16F |
Retirement system |
§ 16G |
Liability of towns for expenses of district |
§ 16G1/2 |
Stabilization fund |
§ 16I |
Severability of sections relating to regional school districts |
§ 17A |
Culinary arts program; special fund |
§ 18 |
Evening schools |
§ 19 |
Evening classes in high schools |
§ 20 |
Notice of evening schools; publication; fees for instruction |
§ 20A |
Instructional Materials Trust Fund |
§ 21 |
Continuation schools; establishment; conditions |
§ 22 |
Attendance |
§ 23 |
Use of existing educational facilities |
§ 24 |
Cost of maintenance; source of funds |
§ 25 |
Unemployed minors; attendance requirements |
§ 26 |
Penalty for failure to establish or maintain school |
§ 26A |
Extended school services for children; establishment; conditions |
§ 26B |
Extended school services for children; organization and operation of plan |
§ 26C |
Extended school services for children; contributions and federal funds; use |
§ 26D |
Borrowing in anticipation of federal funds |
§ 27 |
Lectures |
§ 28 |
Summer schools |
§ 30 |
Moral education |
§ 31 |
Bible reading |
§ 31A |
Guidelines for celebration of holidays authorized |
§ 32 |
Observance of Memorial Day |
§ 32A |
Sex education; policy regarding notice to parents, exception |
§ 34 |
Support of schools; appropriations; recommendations |
§ 34A |
Transcript of student’s record; availability |
§ 34B |
Remedy for failure to furnish transcript of student’s record |
§ 34D |
Student records; maintenance, storage, destruction, etc.; inspection by parent or guardian |
§ 34E |
Inspection of student records; persons authorized |
§ 34G |
Private schools; transfer of transcripts upon ceasing operation |
§ 34H |
Noncustodial parents; receipt of information for child enrolled in public elementary or secondary schools; notice to custodial parent |
§ 35 |
Beginning of term |
§ 36 |
Secretary; appointment; duties |
§ 36A |
Orientation for school committee members |
§ 37 |
Powers and duties; superintendent serving joint districts |
§ 37A |
Grants; acceptance and disbursement |
§ 37B |
Purchase of or making payments to annuities or investments |
§ 37C |
Promotion of racial balance |
§ 37D |
Racial imbalance; definitions; statistics; transfers; priorities; plans for elimination; public hearings; regulations; jurisdiction; costs; attorney’s fees |
§ 37E |
Legal counsel for collective bargaining |
§ 37F |
Legal counsel for general purposes |
§ 37G |
Corporal punishment of pupils prohibited; use of physical restraint; regulations |
§ 37H |
Policies relative to conduct of teachers or students; student handbooks |
§ 37H1/2 |
Felony complaint or conviction of student; suspension; expulsion; right to appeal |
§ 37H3/4 |
Suspension or expulsion on grounds other than those set forth in Secs. 37H or 37H1/2 |
§ 37I |
Magnet school facilities; grants; application; approval; agreements; eligible costs; regulations |
§ 37J |
Magnet educational programs; reimbursement for cost; definition; contracts; joining programs |
§ 37K |
Business demonstration projects; disposition of proceeds |
§ 37L |
Notification to school personnel of reporting requirements for child abuse and neglect and fires; reports of students possessing or using dangerous weapons on school premises; transferred students’ school records |
§ 37M |
Consolidation of administrative functions with city or town |
§ 37N |
Policy for school-sponsored student travel |
§ 37O |
School bullying prohibited; bullying prevention and intervention plans; reporting of bullying incident date |
§ 37P |
School resource officers; model school resource officer memorandum of understanding; review commission; assignment of officers |
§ 37Q |
Mental health support plans |
§ 37R |
Possession and access to two-way communication device for communicating with police and fire departments during emergency situation |
§ 38 |
Employment of teachers, aides, principals, etc.; designation of Horace Mann teachers; performance evaluations; performance standards |
§ 38A |
Duties; appointment of director of occupational guidance, duties of director |
§ 38C |
Status of director of occupational guidance |
§ 38D |
District directors of occupational guidance; appointment |
§ 38F |
Fees for services of directors of occupational guidance; prohibition; penalty for violation |
§ 38G |
Certification for certain teaching and administrative positions; provisional and standard certificates; policies and guidelines regarding requirements and qualifications; applications; recommendations; review; continuing education; renewal of certificate |
§ 38G1/2 |
Specialist teacher endorsement in transition services; transition of students with disabilities to post-school activities |
§ 38H |
School librarian and school library supervisor or co-ordinator; tenure |
§ 38I |
Reimbursement of teachers for tuitions and fees |
§ 38K |
Public relations bureau in school departments; establishment |
§ 38M |
Student advisory committees |
§ 38N |
Proposed annual budgets; public hearings required; quorum |
§ 38O |
Sex education advisory committees |
§ 38P |
School psychologists; tenure |
§ 38Q |
Professional development plans; statewide assistance plan |
§ 38Q1/2 |
Curriculum accommodation plan |
§ 38R |
Criminal background check of current or prospective school employee, volunteer, or other persons having direct and unmonitored contact with children; criminal offender record information; state and national fingerprint-based criminal background checks |
§ 39 |
Teacher’s application forms; questions concerning religion or politics |
§ 40 |
Compensation of teachers; deferred payment |
§ 41 |
Tenure of teachers and superintendents; persons entitled to professional teacher status; dismissal; review |
§ 41A |
Leaves of absence of professional staff |
§ 41B |
Leaves of absence; Peace Corps |
§ 42 |
Dismissal or demotion of teachers or other employees of school or school district; arbitration |
§ 42B |
Rights of school employees in regional districts |
§ 42C |
Records of teachers; inspection |
§ 42D |
Suspension of district employees |
§ 43 |
Reduction of salaries; conditions |
§ 44 |
Restrictions on teachers’ political rights; prohibition |
§ 45 |
Procurement of teaching positions; regulation of fees; penalty for violation |
§ 47 |
Athletic programs; school organizations; student activity accounts |
§ 47A |
Athletic coaches; employment |
§ 48 |
Textbooks and school supplies |
§ 48A |
School safety patrols; functions, limitations; liability |
§ 48B |
Uniforms of school employees |
§ 49 |
Purchase of textbooks by pupils |
§ 49A |
Orders for materials and equipment; contracts for services |
§ 50 |
Change of school books |
§ 51 |
Exhibition of school work at expositions |
§ 52 |
Compensation of school committee members |
§ 53 |
School physicians and nurses |
§ 53A |
Employment of medical personnel by superintendency district or union; compensation; removal |
§ 53B |
Towns within a superintendency district or union; exemption from appointment requirement |
§ 54 |
Examination of children and school personnel |
§ 54A |
Physician or person trained in emergency medical care; assignment to interscholastic football games |
§ 54B |
Administration of medications in school settings; regulations |
§ 54C |
Automated external defibrillators required at school facilities; certified AED providers; hardship waivers; personal liability; regulations |
§ 55 |
Contagious diseases; regulations |
§ 55A |
Sick, injured or incapacitated pupils; procedure for handling; emergency first aid or transportation; exemption from civil liability |
§ 55C |
Eye protective devices |
§ 55D |
Musical wind instruments; notification of sanitization and option to sterilize at parental expense |
§ 56 |
Sick children; notification of parents |
§ 57 |
Physical examination of pupils; eye examination, written report |
§ 57A |
Students with potential indicators of a neurological learning disability; guidelines for development of screening procedures |
§ 59 |
Superintendent of schools; appointment; compensation; powers and duties |
§ 59A |
Superintendents of schools in small towns; appointment; state aid for compensation |
§ 59B |
Principals; appointment; compensation; duties; appointment of other personnel |
§ 59C |
School councils; members; meetings; duties |
§ 59D |
School-community partnerships; grant program |
§ 61 |
Superintendent of schools; employment by a town union; termination of town participation in a union |
§ 62 |
Readjustment of town unions |
§ 63 |
School committees as joint committee; representation: meetings; employment of superintendent, removal |
§ 64 |
Union superintendent; compensation |
§ 67 |
Superintendents of schools; penalty for accepting fees for obtaining positions; employment of immediate family of certain persons prohibited |
§ 68 |
Duties of towns to maintain schools; transportation of children; school building committee representation |
§ 69 |
Display of national flags; pledge of allegiance; penalty for violation |
§ 69A |
Plaque reading ”For God and Country”; placement on public school buildings |
§ 70 |
Location of schools |
§ 71 |
Use of school property; purposes |
§ 71A |
Highway safety stations; designation, discontinuance |
§ 71B |
Adult physical fitness programs |
§ 71C |
Community school programs; receipts; deposit and expenditure |
§ 71D |
Prepayment of tuition to private schools or program sources |
§ 71E |
Appropriations for and expenditure of receipts from adult education and continuing education programs |
§ 71F |
Nonresident or foster care students; deposit of tuition payments and state reimbursements; expenditures and appropriations |
§ 72 |
Sale of lunches |
§ 72A |
Implementation the federal community eligibility provision; waiver; training; certification of students for free school meal status |
§ 72B |
Unpaid student meal debt; determination of whether student is categorically-eligible for free or reduced-price meals |
§ 73 |
Closing of school for teachers’ meetings |
§ 74 |
Management of schools funds by private corporations |
§ 75 |
Extended courses of instruction |
§ 76 |
Rules of admission |
§ 77 |
Joint establishment of extended courses |
§ 79 |
Junior College designation, degrees |
§ 80 |
Lunch period for teachers |
§ 81 |
Junior colleges; restriction on establishment |
§ 82 |
Public secondary schools; right of students to freedom of expression; limitations; definitions |
§ 83 |
Dress and appearance of students protected |
§ 84 |
Discipline of students on matters unrelated to school-sponsored activities prohibited |
§ 85 |
Guidelines implementing Secs. 82 to 84; rules and regulations; adoption; emergencies; procedures |
§ 86 |
Application of Secs. 83 to 85 |
§ 87 |
Intelligence test scores; records |
§ 88 |
Military recruiters; on-campus recruiting opportunities |
§ 89 |
Commonwealth charter schools; Horace Mann charter schools; applications; enrollment; employees; funding |
§ 90 |
Classroom placement of twins or higher order multiples |
§ 91 |
Recovery High School; definition; enrollment; student performance; rules and regulations; deduction of home school district allotment for failure to transfer funds as required |
§ 92 |
Innovation Schools |
§ 93 |
Policy regarding internet safety measures for schools providing computer access to students |
§ 94 |
Commonwealth virtual schools |
§ 95 |
Reimbursement aid to municipalities for costs incurred for federal military reservation students |
§ 96 |
Substance use prevention and abuse education policies for public schools |
§ 97 |
Verbal screening tool for substance abuse disorders |
§ 98 |
Instruction on the history of genocide |
§ 99 |
Purple Star Campuses |