General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 76 School Attendance
- Massachusetts General Laws - Requirements and exceptions - Chapter 76, Section 1
[First paragraph effective until July 1, 2014. For text effective July 1, 2014, see below.] Every child between the minimum and maximum ages established for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pupil absence notification programs - Chapter 76, Section 1A
Upon the acceptance of this section by the local legislative body of a city or town, or by a majority vote of two-thirds of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pupil absence notification program - Chapter 76, Section 1B
[Text of section added by 2012, 222, Sec. 7 effective July 1, 2014. See 2012, 222, Sec. 12.] The school committee of each city, town...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of parents; penalty - Chapter 76, Section 2
Every person in control of a child described in section one shall cause him to attend school as therein required, and, if he fails so...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance of deaf children; penalty - Chapter 76, Section 2A
Every person in control of a deaf child between seven and eighteen shall cause such child to attend some suitable school, approved by the department,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance of illiterate minors; penalties - Chapter 76, Section 3
Every minor between sixteen and eighteen who does not meet the requirements for the completion of the sixth grade of the public schools of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inducing absences; penalty - Chapter 76, Section 4
Whoever induces or attempts to induce a minor to absent himself unlawfully from school, or unlawfully employs him or harbors a minor who, while school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Place of attendance; violations; discrimination - Chapter 76, Section 5
Every person shall have a right to attend the public schools of the town where he actually resides, subject to the following section. No school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of tuition for non-resident children - Chapter 76, Section 6
If a child resides temporarily in a town other than the legal residence of his parent or guardian for the special purpose of their attending...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tuition; children under control of department of children and families; foster care; reimbursement - Chapter 76, Section 7
For the tuition in the public schools of any city, town, or regional school district of any school age child placed in foster care or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 363A, Sec. 56 - Chapter 76, Section 8
Repealed, 1977, 363A, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - High school tuition of children under control of department of public welfare, etc. - Chapter 76, Section 9
If a city or town where a school age child is placed or kept under section seven does not maintain a public high school offering...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Settlements of accounts between towns and department of public welfare, etc. - Chapter 76, Section 10
Settlements of the accounts of the several towns under the three preceding sections with the commonwealth and with Boston shall be made annually on July...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tuition of children in institutions - Chapter 76, Section 11
Any city, town or regional school district which provides instruction to any child who is a resident of an institution and who was not theretofore...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance outside place of residence - Chapter 76, Section 12
Any child, with the consent of the school committee of the town where he resides, may attend, at the expense of said town, the public...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plan for attendance in public school to eliminate racial imbalance; adoption; financial and technical assistance - Chapter 76, Section 12A
The school committee of any city or town or any regional district school committee may adopt a plan for attendance at its schools by any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; attendance of school other than in city or town of residence of child; reports; tuition; parent information system; transportation reimbursement program; funding - Chapter 76, Section 12B
(a) As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: “Above foundation reimbursement amount”, (i) for fiscal year nineteen hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - School Choice Tuition Trust Fund - Chapter 76, Section 12C
There shall be established upon the books of the commonwealth a separate fund, to be known as the School Choice Tuition Trust Fund. The state...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer cards - Chapter 76, Section 13
When any child described in section one leaves the school or institution where he is being educated because of change of residence to another town...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Island children; transportation - Chapter 76, Section 14
The department of education may provide transportation to and from school, or board in place thereof, for such children of school age as live upon...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vaccination and immunization - Chapter 76, Section 15
No child shall, except as hereinafter provided, be admitted to school except upon presentation of a physician’s certificate that the child has been successfully immunized...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sickle cell anemia; blood tests - Chapter 76, Section 15A
Every child, which the commissioner of public health, by rule or regulation, may determine is susceptible to the disease known as sickle cell trait or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Screening programs, testing, treatment, etc. for sickle cell anemia and related genetically-linked diseases; rules and regulations; records and information, disclosure restricted - Chapter 76, Section 15B
The department of public health shall furnish necessary laboratory and testing facilities for a voluntary screening program for sickle cell anemia or for the sickle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Immunization of college health science students - Chapter 76, Section 15C
No full-time student under thirty years of age or any full-time or part-time undergraduate or graduate students in a health science who is in contact...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Meningococcal disease; college students immunization - Chapter 76, Section 15D
No newly enrolled full-time student attending a college, university or secondary school who will be living in a dormitory or comparable congregate living arrangement licensed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Children excluded from school; remedies - Chapter 76, Section 16
Any pupil who has attained age eighteen, or the parent, guardian or custodian of a pupil who has not attained said age of eighteen, who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing prerequisite to exclusion - Chapter 76, Section 17
A school committee shall not permanently exclude a pupil from the public schools for alleged misconduct without first giving him and his parent or guardian...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to parent or guardian and meeting with school committee prerequisite to student permanently leaving school; annual report; application of section - Chapter 76, Section 18
[First paragraph effective until July 1, 2014. For text effective July 1, 2014, see below.] No student sixteen years of age or older shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Supervisors of attendance; employment - Chapter 76, Section 19
Every school committee shall appoint, make regulations governing and fix the compensation of one or more supervisors of attendance, who may be either male or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of supervisors of attendance - Chapter 76, Section 20
Supervisors of attendance shall inquire into all cases arising under sections two and eight of chapter seventy-two, sections one, two, four to eleven, inclusive, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Opportunity for academic progress for suspended students; education service plans; alternative educational services - Chapter 76, Section 21
[Text of section added by 2012, 222, Sec. 9 effective July 1, 2014. See 2012, 222, Sec. 12.] Principals and headmasters shall ensure that students...
Last modified: September 11, 2015