General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 70 School Funds and State Aid for Public Schools

• Massachusetts General Laws - Legislative intent - Chapter 70, Section 1
  It is the intention of the general court, subject to appropriation, to assure fair and adequate minimum per student funding for public schools in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 70, Section 2
  As used in this chapter and in chapters fifteen, sixty-nine and seventy-one, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foundation budget; regulations; calculation of budget - Chapter 70, Section 3
  For the school district in each municipality, for each regional school district, and for each independent vocational school in the commonwealth, there is hereby established...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Data necessary to generate required minimum local contribution and state aid components; house and senate committees on ways and means; bi-monthly updates - Chapter 70, Section 3A
  The secretary of administration and finance in cooperation with the commissioner of revenue and the commissioner of education shall make available to the house and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foundation budget review commission; membership; recommendations - Chapter 70, Section 4
  There is hereby established a foundation budget review commission to review the way in which foundation budgets are calculated and to make recommendations to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Municipalities receiving overburden aid; reductions - Chapter 70, Section 5
  Beginning in fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-four and for every fiscal year thereafter, the following shall apply to any municipality receiving overburden aid: the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contributions by municipalities for support of local schools and school district - Chapter 70, Section 6
  In addition to amounts appropriated for long-term debt service, school lunches, adult education, student transportation, and tuition revenue, each municipality in the commonwealth shall annually...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recalculation of annual minimum required local contribution; appeal for adjustment; reduction; guidelines for implementation - Chapter 70, Section 6A
  [ Text of section added by 2013, 38, Sec. 71 effective July 1, 2013. See 2013, 38, Sec. 219.] (a) Notwithstanding any general or special...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reductions in amount appropriated - Chapter 70, Section 7
  If there is appropriated in any fiscal year a sum smaller than the amount of state school aid specified in section twelve, any school appropriations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Districts’ methods for allocating appropriated funds; under-performing districts; restrictions - Chapter 70, Section 8
  Except as required by General Law, each school district may determine how to allocate any funds appropriated for the support of public schools without regard...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports on amounts spent for certain expenses - Chapter 70, Section 9
  School districts shall report each fiscal year to the commissioner of education on the amounts spent for extraordinary maintenance, extended programming, professional development, and books...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Aid paid to municipalities and districts; amounts - Chapter 70, Section 10
  Subject to appropriation, the amount of state aid to be paid to each municipality in each fiscal year under this chapter shall be the sum...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Excess funds; application to following fiscal year - Chapter 70, Section 11
  If in any fiscal year a district’s actual expenditure for public education is less than the amount required to be appropriated for public education pursuant...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of amounts appropriated - Chapter 70, Section 12
  (a) Subject to appropriation, beginning in fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-four and for all subsequent fiscal years, the amounts appropriated for state school aid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Allocation of funds - Chapter 70, Section 13
  (a) The funds appropriated for state school aid shall be allocated among municipalities as set forth in this chapter. If said amount appropriated is less...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption of certain districts from chapter - Chapter 70, Section 14
  For any district in which fewer than twenty percent of the students scored below the state average on the assessment tests required by chapter sixty-nine,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of chapter - Chapter 70, Section 15
  This chapter shall apply to all cities, towns, and regional school districts, notwithstanding section twenty-seven C of chapter twenty-nine, and without regard to any acceptance...

Last modified: September 11, 2015