General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 69 Powers and Duties of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
- Massachusetts General Laws - Intent of title - Chapter 69, Section 1
It is hereby declared to be a paramount goal of the commonwealth to provide a public education system of sufficient quality to extend to all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Department of elementary and secondary education; commissioner; duties - Chapter 69, Section 1A
DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; COMMISSIONER; DUTIES There shall be within the executive office of education a department of elementary and secondary education, hereinafter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of elementary and secondary education; duties - Chapter 69, Section 1B
BOARD OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; DUTIES The board shall establish policies relative to the education of students in public early childhood, elementary, secondary and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Minimum nutritional standards for school food services; regulations; breakfast programs; guidelines for reimbursement of costs; Hepatitis B immunization - Chapter 69, Section 1C
The board shall establish minimum nutritional standards for all school food services in all public elementary, secondary, and vocational-technical schools. The board shall require all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statewide educational goals; academic standards; vocational training; grant program - Chapter 69, Section 1D
The board shall establish a set of statewide educational goals for all public elementary and secondary schools in the commonwealth. The board shall direct the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Curriculum frameworks - Chapter 69, Section 1E
The board shall direct the commissioner to institute a process for drawing up curriculum frameworks for the core subjects covered by the academic standards provided...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vocational-technical education and school-to-work transition programs; standards; grants - Chapter 69, Section 1F
The board shall set standards for vocational-technical education and programs for school-to-work transition. The board shall give particular emphasis for setting standards for the integration...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Minimum length of school day and school year - Chapter 69, Section 1G
The board shall establish the minimum length for a school day and the minimum number of days in the school year.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adult basic education and literacy services system; grants; objectives - Chapter 69, Section 1H
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department, in coordination with other state agencies, shall develop a comprehensive system, subject to appropriation,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Performances of public school districts and individual public schools; evaluation system; assessment instruments; reports - Chapter 69, Section 1I
The board shall adopt a system for evaluating on an annual basis the performance of both public school districts and individual public schools. With respect...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Underperforming or chronically underperforming schools; creation and submission of turnaround plan; appointment of receiver; annual review - Chapter 69, Section 1J
(a) The commissioner of elementary and secondary education may, on the basis of student performance data collected pursuant to section 1I, a school or district...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of district’s chronic under-performance; designation of receiver; creation of turnaround plan; annual review; failure of municipality to fulfill fiscal responsibilities - Chapter 69, Section 1K
(a) A district shall be deemed eligible for designation as chronically underperforming upon a determination by the board of elementary and secondary education, pursuant to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Comprehensive interdisciplinary health education and human service discretionary grant program; proposals; rejection; funds - Chapter 69, Section 1L
Subject to appropriation, the board shall establish a comprehensive interdisciplinary health education and human service discretionary grant program. Funds for this program may be appropriated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discretionary grant program - Chapter 69, Section 1M
The board shall establish a discretionary grant program for the purpose of providing planning grants to assist in the development and establishment of charter schools...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Alternative education grant program - Chapter 69, Section 1N
(a) The department of education, hereinafter referred to as the department, shall establish a grant program, subject to appropriation, to be known as the alternative...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Truancy prevention program certification process - Chapter 69, Section 1O
The department of elementary and secondary education shall adopt regulations establishing a truancy prevention program certification process, consistent with the behavioral health and public schools...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statement of amounts spent for vocational schools; annual report - Chapter 69, Section 2
On or before the first Wednesday of January of each year the commissioner shall present to the general court a statement of amounts expended previous...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 30 - Chapter 69, Section 3
Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compilation of statistics as to certain institutions - Chapter 69, Section 4
The department, through its division of research and statistics, shall prepare, with due reference to the requirements of the federal office of education, and annually,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1969, 254, Sec. 3 - Chapter 69, Section 5
Repealed, 1969, 254, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Teachers; applications for positions; qualifications - Chapter 69, Section 6
The department shall receive applications for the position of teacher from graduates of good moral character of any high school or state university in this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1990, 150, Sec. 273 - Chapter 69, Section 7 to 7H
Repealed, 1990, 150, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of school buildings - Chapter 69, Section 8
For the purposes of such courses, the department may, with the consent of the school committee or other proper officials and subject to rules and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Medical emergency response plans; model plan - Chapter 69, Section 8A
(a) Each school committee and commonwealth charter school board of trustees shall ensure that every school under its jurisdiction has a written medical emergency response...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Classes for illiterates and foreigners - Chapter 69, Section 9
The department, with the cooperation of any town applying therefor, may provide for such instruction in the use of English for persons eighteen years of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of class - Chapter 69, Section 9A
Upon application of twenty or more residents of any city or town who are eighteen years of age or over certifying that they desire to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement for expenditures - Chapter 69, Section 10
Expenditures for courses maintained under sections nine and nine A, with the approval of the department, shall be reimbursable under chapter seventy.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Education for American citizenship; director - Chapter 69, Section 10A
The department is charged with responsibility for leadership in the co-operative study and fuller use, in the public schools and teachers colleges of the commonwealth,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of the division of immigration and Americanization - Chapter 69, Section 11
The division of immigration and Americanization shall employ such methods, consistent with law, as in its judgment, will tend to bring into sympathetic and mutually...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec. 5 - Chapter 69, Section 12 to 15
Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 345 - Chapter 69, Section 16
Repealed, 1952,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec. 5 - Chapter 69, Section 17
Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1951, 673, Sec. 4 - Chapter 69, Section 18
Repealed, 1951, 673, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec. 5 - Chapter 69, Section 19 to 19B
Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1951, 673, Sec. 6 - Chapter 69, Section 20 to 22
Repealed, 1951, 673, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec. 5 - Chapter 69, Section 23 to 25E
Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 766, Sec. 8 - Chapter 69, Section 26
Repealed, 1972, 766, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec. 5 - Chapter 69, Section 26A
Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 766, Sec. 8 - Chapter 69, Section 27 to 29
Repealed, 1972, 766, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 766, Sec. 8 - Chapter 69, Section 29A to 29E
Repealed, 1972, 766, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of organization certificate or charter amendments; periodic inspections - Chapter 69, Section 30
The state secretary, before approving a certificate of organization in connection with the proposed incorporation of a college, junior college, university or other educational institution...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Standards for educational institutions; establishment; revocation of powers to grant degrees - Chapter 69, Section 30A
The board of higher education shall establish standards relative to faculty, equipment, courses of study, financial organization, facilities, physical plant and leadership which shall apply...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prerequisites to approval of organization certificate or charter amendments - Chapter 69, Section 31
Said board of higher education, in acting upon the certificate of organization in connection with the proposed incorporation of a junior college, with power to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Awarding of degrees; necessity of authorization - Chapter 69, Section 31A
No educational institution chartered, located, offering courses, or otherwise doing business within the commonwealth, shall award degrees within the commonwealth unless authorized to do so...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of student records by institutions ceasing to exist - Chapter 69, Section 31B
Any educational institution with power to grant degrees in the commonwealth which ceases to exist shall transfer all of its student records to the board...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notification of accreditation of institution to applicant for admission upon acceptance required - Chapter 69, Section 31C
Any college, university, community college, junior college and other school of higher education, whether public or private, shall, upon accepting any applicant for admission to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 689, Sec. 2 - Chapter 69, Section 31D
Repealed, 1981, 689, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 766, Sec. 8 - Chapter 69, Section 32 to 34
Repealed, 1972, 766, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 31 - Chapter 69, Section 35
Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of cultural organizations by schools and community organizations; grants - Chapter 69, Section 36
As used in this section the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:— “Community organization”, a charitable or educational organization incorporated under the...
Last modified: September 11, 2015