General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 15 Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

• Massachusetts General Laws - Department; supervision of commissioner - Chapter 15, Section 1
  There shall be within the executive office of education a department of elementary and secondary education, in this chapter called the department, which shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec. 109 - Chapter 15, Section 1A to 1D
  Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of elementary and secondary education; composition; disqualification; tenure; vacancies; chairman; expenses; meetings; student advisory and regional councils - Chapter 15, Section 1E
  There shall be in the department a board of elementary and secondary education, in this chapter called the board, which shall consist of the chairman...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner of elementary and secondary education; appointment; duties; salary - Chapter 15, Section 1F
  COMMISSIONER OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; APPOINTMENT; DUTIES; SALARY Whenever a vacancy occurs in the position of commissioner, the board shall by a two-thirds vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory councils to board; membership; duties - Chapter 15, Section 1G
  There shall be established advisory councils to the board in the following areas: school and district accountability and assistance; life management skills; home economics; educational...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 4 - Chapter 15, Section 1H
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Elimination of racial imbalance; assistance in formulation of plans; effect of non-compliance; denial of state aid; transportation costs; equal education improvement fund; guidelines - Chapter 15, Section 1I
  The board of education, in this section called the board, shall provide technical and other assistance in the formulation of plans to reduce or eliminate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial review of board’s recommendations or revised plans; jurisdiction - Chapter 15, Section 1J
  Within thirty days after (1) a school committee or regional district school committee declines to accept the recommendations made to it by the board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 5 - Chapter 15, Section 1K
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec. 319 - Chapter 15, Section 1L
  Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 6 - Chapter 15, Section 1M to 1Q
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - School library and nonprint media services; funding - Chapter 15, Section 1R
  The board of education shall provide for the establishment of school library and nonprint media services, including: (1) the acquisition or rental of library and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 7 - Chapter 15, Section 1S 1T
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1947, 652, Sec. 13 - Chapter 15, Section 2 to 3
  Repealed, 1947, 652, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1965, 572, Sec. 8 - Chapter 15, Section 3A to 4
  Repealed, 1965, 572, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 8 - Chapter 15, Section 4A
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1965, 572, Sec. 8 - Chapter 15, Section 5 to 6A
  Repealed, 1965, 572, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 9 - Chapter 15, Section 6B 6C
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 1 - Chapter 15, Section 7
  Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1960, 429, Sec. 1 - Chapter 15, Section 8
  Repealed, 1960, 429, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 565, Sec. 3 - Chapter 15, Section 9 to 11
  Repealed, 1977, 565, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1965, 572, Sec. 8 - Chapter 15, Section 12
  Repealed, 1965, 572, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec. 3 - Chapter 15, Section 13 13A
  Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1925, 286, Sec. 1 - Chapter 15, Section 14
  Repealed, 1925, 286, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec. 3 - Chapter 15, Section 15
  Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1970, 887, Sec. 3 - Chapter 15, Section 15A
  Repealed, 1970, 887, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Library center for visually-handicapped children - Chapter 15, Section 15B
  There shall be established in the division of special education a library center for the acquisition, maintenance and distribution of books and other material deemed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - General Sylvanus Thayer Day - Chapter 15, Section 15TTTTT
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 122 effective June 6, 2014.] The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart June 9 as General...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Teachers’ retirement board; establishment; duties; membership - Chapter 15, Section 16
  There shall be a teachers’ retirement board for the purpose of administering the teachers’ retirement system established under the provisions of chapter 32. Such board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Member’s reimbursement for expenses - Chapter 15, Section 17
  The members of the teachers’ retirement board shall serve without compensation, but they shall be reimbursed from the expense fund of the teachers’ retirement system...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Executive director; salary; additional employees - Chapter 15, Section 18
  The teachers’ retirement board shall appoint and may remove an executive director and shall establish his salary. Subject to the approval of said board, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of annuities or other investments - Chapter 15, Section 18A
  As used in this section, the words “includible compensation” and “custodial account” shall have the same meaning as in section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec. 111 - Chapter 15, Section 19 to 21A
  Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1964, 561, Sec. 4 - Chapter 15, Section 22 23
  Repealed, 1964, 561, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec. 111 - Chapter 15, Section 24
  Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1965, 572, Sec. 8 - Chapter 15, Section 25 26
  Repealed, 1965, 572, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec. 111 - Chapter 15, Section 27 to 39A
  Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1989, 653, Sec. 16 - Chapter 15, Section 40 to 45
  Repealed, 1989, 653, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 10 - Chapter 15, Section 46 to 51
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Essential skills discretionary grant program; basic skills remediation programs; dropout prevention programs - Chapter 15, Section 52
  The board shall establish an essential skills discretionary grant program. The board may make grant awards to school districts with high concentrations of low income...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 11 - Chapter 15, Section 53
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2008, 215, Sec. 20 - Chapter 15, Section 54
  Repealed, 2008, 215, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - REACH awards - Chapter 15, Section 55
  The board of education shall establish a program entitled Recognizing Educational Achievement, hereinafter referred to as REACH. The purpose of REACH shall be to recognize...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Office of school and district accountability - Chapter 15, Section 55A
  In order to support the commissioner, department and board in fulfilling their duties under the provisions of chapter 69, including sections 1J and 1K, there...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 12 - Chapter 15, Section 56
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Instructional materials grant program - Chapter 15, Section 57
  The board shall establish an instructional materials grant program to provide financial assistance to school districts for the purchase of textbooks, workbooks, audio-visual materials, library...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Leadership academy; training for school principals and supervisory personnel - Chapter 15, Section 58
  The board shall establish a unit designated as the leadership academy which shall provide training to school principals and other supervisory personnel. Such training shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 10 - Chapter 15, Section 59
  Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of costs to cities and towns - Chapter 15, Section 60
  The commissioner of administration shall convene a working committee made up of his own designee, a designee of the commissioner of education and a designee...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 13 - Chapter 15, Section 61 62
  Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Carnegie school grant program; establishment - Chapter 15, Section 63
  There is hereby established a Carnegie school grant program for the purpose of encouraging the public schools of the commonwealth to plan and develop innovative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Carnegie school grant program; definitions - Chapter 15, Section 64
  As used in sections sixty-three to sixty-five, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Carnegie school”, an individual public school, including a school...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Carnegie school grant awards; application; approval; deposit of funds - Chapter 15, Section 65
  The board may award planning and implementation grants to individual public schools which apply for approval as Carnegie schools. In order to be eligible for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - International education programs; school recognition; grants; partnership programs; exchanges of professional personnel and students - Chapter 15, Section 66
  (a) It shall be the policy of the commonwealth to encourage students, teachers, administrators and educational policy makers to participate in international studies, international exchange...

Last modified: September 11, 2015