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- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 71B, Section 1
The following words as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: "Department'', the department of education. "Free appropriate public...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations; special education programs; pre-school level admission to programs; assignment of child - Chapter 71B, Section 2
[ First paragraph effective until July 8, 2008. For text effective July 8, 2008, see below.]The board shall promulgate, jointly with the departments of mental...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification of school age children with special needs; diagnosis of needs; proposal of program; evaluations and assessments of child and program - Chapter 71B, Section 3
[ First paragraph effective until June 30, 2009. For text effective June 30, 2009, see below.]In accordance with the regulations, guidelines and directives of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrator of special education - Chapter 71B, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agreements between school committees or with public or private schools - Chapter 71B, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cost of special education program at residential school; obligations of school committee and commonwealth - Chapter 71B, Section 5A
(a) There is hereby established, subject to appropriation, a special education reimbursement program. Said program shall reimburse municipalities for the eligible instructional costs associated with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment of children to classes; annual report; equal educational opportunities, denial, hearings, plans, injunctive or other relief - Chapter 71B, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tests for selection of children for referral, diagnosis, or evaluation - Chapter 71B, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation to and from school - Chapter 71B, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Department to define circumstances requiring special education programs and to provide standards - Chapter 71B, Section 9
[ Text of section effective until June 30, 2009. For text effective June 30, 2009, see below.]The department, after consultation with the departments of mental...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Workshop curriculum; parent advisory committee. - Chapter 71B, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Referral of children to institutions within or without the commonwealth on annual renewal basis upon request; requisites; expenses and cost - Chapter 71B, Section 10
[ First paragraph effective until June 30, 2009. For text effective June 30, 2009, see below.]The department may, on an annual renewal basis, upon the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec. 144 - Chapter 71B, Section 11
Chapter 71B: Section 11. Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec. 144
- Massachusetts General Laws - Incarcerated children with special needs; special education - Chapter 71B, Section 11A
The department of education shall provide special education to school aged children with a disability who are incarcerated in county houses of correction.
- Massachusetts General Laws - School departments; establishment; administration; staff; operation; expenditures; costs of education - Chapter 71B, Section 12
[ First paragraph effective until June 30, 2009. For text effective June 30, 2009, see below.]The department shall establish and maintain a school department for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to secs. 12A—12C - Chapter 71B, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bureau of transitional planning; transitional advisory committee; establishment - Chapter 71B, Section 12B
[ Text of section effective until July 8, 2008. For text effective July 8, 2008, see below.]There shall be within the executive office of human...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Continuing habilitative services; eligibility; transitional plan; rules and regulations - Chapter 71B, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1986, 599, Sec. 27 - Chapter 71B, Section 13
Chapter 71B: Section 13. Repealed, 1986, 599, Sec. 27
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 367, Sec. 70J - Chapter 71B, Section 13A
Chapter 71B: Section 13A. Repealed, 1978, 367, Sec. 70J
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special needs programs; reimbursement of transportation costs - Chapter 71B, Section 14
The state treasurer shall annually, on or before November twentieth, reimburse any city, town, regional school district or independent vocational school for expenditures incurred during...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 688, Sec. 2 - Chapter 71B, Section 15
Chapter 71B: Section 15. Repealed, 1983, 688, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Students with disabilities; participation in high school graduation ceremonies and activities without award of high school diploma - Chapter 71B, 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...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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