General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 71A English Language Education in Public Schools

• Massachusetts General Laws - Findings and declarations - Chapter 71A, Section 1
  Findings and Declarations The People of Massachusetts find and declare that: (a) The English language is the common public language of the United States of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 71A, Section 2
  Definitions In this chapter, (a) “Bilingual education” means a language acquisition process for students in which all or substantial portions of the instruction, textbooks, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Census - Chapter 71A, Section 3
  Census Local school committees shall annually ascertain, not earlier than the first day of April, under regulations prescribed by the Department of Education, the number...
• Massachusetts General Laws - English language education - Chapter 71A, Section 4
  English language education Subject to the exceptions provided in Section 5 of this chapter, all children in Massachusetts public schools shall be taught English by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Parental waivers - Chapter 71A, Section 5
  Parental waivers (a). The requirements of Section 4 of this chapter may be waived with the prior written informed consent, to be provided annually, of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Legal standing and parental enforcement - Chapter 71A, Section 6
  Legal standing and parental enforcement (a) As set forth in Section 4 of this chapter, all school children are to be provided at their assigned...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standardized testing for monitoring education progress - Chapter 71A, Section 7
  Standardized testing for monitoring education programs To ensure that the educational progress of all students in learning English together with other academic subjects is properly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - On-site evaluations of English learners - Chapter 71A, Section 7A
  The department shall conduct on-site visits to school districts at least once every 5 years for the purposes of evaluating the effectiveness of programs serving...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Community-based English tutoring - Chapter 71A, Section 8
  Community-based English tutoring In furtherance of its constitutional and legal obligation to provide all children with an adequate education, the state shall encourage family members...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2002, 386, Sec. 1 - Chapter 71A, Section 9
  Repealed, 2002, 386, Sec.

Last modified: September 11, 2015