General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 15A Public Education
- Massachusetts General Laws - Policy and goals - Chapter 15A, Section 1
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth to provide, foster and support institutions of public higher education that are of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2008, 27, Sec. 11 - Chapter 15A, Section 2
Repealed, 2008, 27, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 57, Sec. 9 - Chapter 15A, Section 3
Repealed, 1996, 57, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statewide educational technology plan; goals; development and implementation - Chapter 15A, Section 3A
A statewide educational technology plan, to be known as Massachusetts education-on-line, shall be developed by the Massachusetts corporation for educational telecommunication, hereinafter referred to as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of higher education; membership - Chapter 15A, Section 4
(a) The board of higher education, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the council or the board, shall be composed of 13 voting members,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Robert H. Goddard council on science, technology, engineering and mathematics education - Chapter 15A, Section 4A
(a) Within the board of higher education there shall be the Robert H. Goddard council on science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The council shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public institutions of higher education system - Chapter 15A, Section 5
There shall be, for the purposes of this chapter, a system of public institutions of higher education, hereinafter called the system, which shall consist of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Governor Foster Furcolo Community Colleges - Chapter 15A, Section 5A
For the purposes of this chapter, those community colleges within the system of public institutions of higher education established in section 5 shall collectively be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Department of higher education; Commissioner; other employees; appointments; salaries; powers and duties - Chapter 15A, Section 6
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION; COMMISSIONER; OTHER EMPLOYEES; APPOINTMENT; SALARIES; POWERS AND DUTIES There shall be within the executive office of education a department of higher...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mission statements; development, approval and adoption - Chapter 15A, Section 7
With regard to the overall system of public higher education, and each of the three segments of the system, as defined in section 5, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of higher education; performance measurement system - Chapter 15A, Section 7A
(a) In order to promote accountability for effective management and stewardship of public funds and to achieve and demonstrate measurable educational outcomes, the institutions shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inoperative. See 1991, 142, Sec. 49 - Chapter 15A, Section 8
Inoperative. See 1991, 142, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of council - Chapter 15A, Section 9
The council shall have the following duties and powers:— (a) confer upon the boards of trustees the power to offer degree programs after taking into...
- Massachusetts General Laws - American Sign Language - Chapter 15A, Section 9A
American Sign Language is hereby recognized as a full and legitimate language, as the language of a unique culture in the United States, and as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Needs-based financial assistance program; scholarships; guidelines - Chapter 15A, Section 9B
There shall be a program, subject to appropriation, of needs-based financial assistance, administered by the board of higher education, to provide full or partial scholarships...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 15A, Section 10
As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Community college” shall mean any of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Council actions permitted to aid and contribute to performances of educational and other purposes of community colleges - Chapter 15A, Section 11
The council may, in the name and on behalf of the commonwealth, upon such terms and with or without consideration, do any or all of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Council actions permitted to provide for HEFA expenses and for payments of indebtedness incurred on behalf of community colleges or affiliates - Chapter 15A, Section 12
To provide for the expenses of HEFA and for the payment of indebtedness incurred by it in connection with any project financed by HEFA on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - HEFA; sale or lease of buildings, lands or other property; proceeds - Chapter 15A, Section 13
HEFA may sell the buildings or other structures upon any land acquired by it pursuant to section eleven and which are not included in a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers under Secs. 11 and 12 exercised on behalf of University of Massachusetts and affiliates - Chapter 15A, Section 14
Upon application by the trustees of the University of Massachusetts, the council may exercise on behalf of such university and its university affiliates all the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Estimate of ordinary maintenance and revenues; capital outlay requests; allocation of appropriations - Chapter 15A, Section 15
In accordance with the funding formulas referenced in section 15B of this chapter, the secretary, in consultation with the council and with the board of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - [There is no 15A:15A.] - Chapter 15A, Section 15A
[There is no
- Massachusetts General Laws - Budget cycle; preparation and submission of budget requests; comments and recommendations - Chapter 15A, Section 15B
There shall be established a two year budget cycle for the public system of higher education which shall be instituted beginning in fiscal year nineteen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenditures and revenues; management and accounting reporting system - Chapter 15A, Section 15C
The public institutions of higher education shall report monthly by subsidiary all expenditures and revenues from all appropriated and non-appropriated funds on the Massachusetts management...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personnel administrative reporting and information system - Chapter 15A, Section 15D
The public institutions of higher education shall report all personnel information for those employees compensated from any budgetary, federal, capital or trust fund through the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public higher education endowment incentive and capital outlay contribution program; matching formula; termination of program - Chapter 15A, Section 15E
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth to encourage private fundraising by the public institutions of higher education and to assist...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community college workforce training incentive program - Chapter 15A, Section 15F
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth to encourage public community college training opportunities in order to promote workforce development, minimize...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Scholarship programs; guidelines - Chapter 15A, Section 16
There shall be a general scholarship program administered by the council for the purpose of providing financial assistance to students domiciled in the commonwealth and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Teaching learning corps program - Chapter 15A, Section 17
The council, subject to appropriation, shall establish a program entitled the “teaching learning corps”. The program shall provide school districts choosing to participate, which contain...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Qualifying student health insurance programs; participation; compliance procedures report; penalties for noncompliance - Chapter 15A, Section 18
[ First paragraph effective until July 1, 2014. For text effective July 1, 2014, see below.]Every full-time and part-time student enrolled in a public or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tuition and fee waiver program; guidelines; annual report - Chapter 15A, Section 19
There shall be a single tuition and fee waiver program administered by the council in accordance with guidelines established by the council to govern the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tuition, fees and room and board waiver for surviving child of parent who died as a result of injuries sustained during active and full-time military service while outside the United States - Chapter 15A, Section 191/2
Each surviving child of a parent who died as result of injuries sustained during active and full-time military service as a member of the armed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Student loan repayment program; guidelines; expenses for administration - Chapter 15A, Section 19A
There shall be a student loan repayment program known as the attracting excellence to teaching program, for the purpose of encouraging outstanding students to teach...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Teacher signing bonus program; regulations - Chapter 15A, Section 19B
There shall be an incoming teacher signing bonus program to be administered by the department of education for the purpose of encouraging the best and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Master teacher corps program; regulations - Chapter 15A, Section 19C
There shall be Massachusetts master teacher corps program for the purpose of building a group of recognized teachers of high achievement in the profession who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Scholarship program known as tomorrow’s teachers program; guidelines - Chapter 15A, Section 19D
There shall be a scholarship program to be administered by the board of higher education, which shall be known as the tomorrow’s teachers program, for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Principal and superintendent recruitment program - Chapter 15A, Section 19E
There shall be a principal and superintendent recruitment program for recruiting and training as principals and superintendents in public schools individuals from other professions who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Educational opportunities information center - Chapter 15A, Section 20
There shall be an educational opportunities information center in the office of the council to provide information and assistance to prospective college and university students,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of trustees for Sec. 5 institutions; membership; qualifications; tenure; vacancies - Chapter 15A, Section 21
There shall be a board of trustees consisting of 11 members for each of the institutions named in section 5, other than the University of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of trustees of community colleges or state universities; powers and duties - Chapter 15A, Section 22
Each board of trustees of a community college or state university shall be responsible for establishing those policies necessary for the administrative management of personnel,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center; establishment; powers and duties of board - Chapter 15A, Section 22A
(a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:- “Board”, the board of trustees of the Roxbury Community College. “Center”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of trustees; estimate for institution’s ordinary maintenance and revenues - Chapter 15A, Section 23
Each board of trustees shall periodically prepare and submit to the secretary and the council an estimate, in detail, for the ordinary maintenance of its...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of trustees; authorized purchases - Chapter 15A, Section 24
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, each board of trustees shall have the authority to make any purchase or purchases in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cooperative purchasing; Massachusetts higher education consortium - Chapter 15A, Section 24A
With respect to purchases by a board of trustees authorized by section 24, including a purchase by the board of trustees of the University of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal to elect and contract with blind teaching candidates - Chapter 15A, Section 25
The council or a board of trustees shall not refuse to elect and contract with a candidate for a teaching position in any public institution...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Summer sessions; evening classes - Chapter 15A, Section 26
Each public institution of higher education may conduct summer sessions, provided such sessions are operated at no expense to the commonwealth. Each public institution of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dormitories; nonsmoking rooms; rules and regulations - Chapter 15A, Section 27
Each public institution of higher education which provides housing for students in dormitories shall establish rules and regulations providing that a certain number of dormitory...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of bank branch on grounds of public higher education institutions - Chapter 15A, Section 28
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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; use of student fee funds for legislative agents’ costs - Chapter 15A, Section 29
(a) As used in this chapter and in chapters seventy-three, seventy-five, seventy-five A, and seventy-five B, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Waivable...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Developmentally disabled residents; waiver of standardized college entrance aptitude tests - Chapter 15A, Section 30
No resident of the commonwealth who has been diagnosed as being developmentally disabled, including but not limited to, having dyslexia or other specific language disabilities,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative expenses; determination of qualifying expenditures - Chapter 15A, Section 31
The council shall define which of those expenses at the institutional level are to be considered administrative expenses. In preparing their annual spending plans, each...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Student assessment system - Chapter 15A, Section 32
The council shall prepare a system of student assessment, to be administered within the public system of higher education, to measure student improvement, between the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Report assessing overall faculty productivity and teacher effectiveness - Chapter 15A, Section 33
The council shall publish a report, on or before January first, nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and every four years thereafter, assessing overall faculty productivity and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Benchmark study of public higher education system - Chapter 15A, Section 34
It is hereby declared the policy of the commonwealth to provide and ensure an accurate and objective study of the public system of higher education...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Professional development schools grant program - Chapter 15A, Section 35
There is hereby established a professional development schools grant program. The board of education shall award grants to exemplary public schools and to cooperating public...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public schools’ eligibility for funds through professional development schools grant program - Chapter 15A, Section 36
No public school shall receive funds through the professional development schools grant program if, (1) said school is within a city, town, or regional school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foundations created for public institutions of higher education; governing boards; annual reports; audits - Chapter 15A, Section 37
(a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Foundation”, an organization which is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Military recruiters; on-campus recruiting - Chapter 15A, Section 38
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all public institutions of higher education shall offer the same student information and on-campus recruiting opportunities...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Secondary education students qualified to enroll in higher education institutions - Chapter 15A, Section 39
A qualified student enrolled in a public secondary school may enroll as a student in Massachusetts public institutions of higher education. The student shall earn...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Optional retirement system; providers; regulations; participation; funds - Chapter 15A, Section 40
(1)(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, or of any general or special law to the contrary the board of higher...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for approval of articles or certificates; revenue - Chapter 15A, Section 41
The board of higher education may establish fees to be charged to independent institutions of higher education which seek approval of articles of organization, articles...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Award of academic credit for student’s military occupation, training, coursework and experience; educational credit for exams funded through Department of Defense - Chapter 15A, Section 42
[Text of section added by 2012, 108, Sec. 5. See also, Section 42 added by 2012, 139, Sec. 51, below.] (a) The council shall develop...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Immunity from academic or financial penalties for postsecondary students performing military service on behalf of the United States - Chapter 15A, Section 43
[ Text of section added by 2014, 62, Sec. 6 effective July 2, 2014.] (a) No student at a postsecondary institution shall incur academic or...
Last modified: September 11, 2015