Chapter 71B

Section 1 Definitions
Section 2 Regulations; special education programs; pre-school level admission to programs; assignment of child; institutions of higher education
Section 2A Bureau of special education appeals; duties; director; supervision; standards for dispute resolution; confidentiality; hearing officers; memorandum of understanding; bureau of special education appeals advisory council
Section 3 Identification of school age children with a disability; diagnosis of disability; proposal of program; evaluations and assessments of child and program
Section 3A Administrator of special education; duties; joint appointment
Section 4 Agreements between school committees or with public or private schools
Section 5 Costs or obligations; payment; budget
Section 5A Special education reimbursement program
Section 5B Pooled risk program for extraordinary and unanticipated special education costs
Section 5C Zero interest loan program for extraordinary and unanticipated special education costs
Section 6 Assignment of children to classes; annual report; equal educational opportunities; prima facie denial; hearings; injunctive or other relief
Section 7 Tests for selection of children for referral, diagnosis, or evaluation
Section 8 Transportation to and from school; reimbursement to parents
Section 9 Department to define circumstances requiring special education programs and to provide standards
Section 9A Workshop curriculum; parent advisory committee
Section 10 Referral of children to institutions within or without the commonwealth on annual renewal basis upon request; requisites; expenses and cost
Section 11 Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec. 144
Section 11A Incarcerated children with a disability; special education
Section 12 School departments; establishment; administration; staff; operation; expenditures; costs of education
Section 12A Definitions applicable to Secs. 12A to 12C
Section 12B Bureau of transitional planning; transitional advisory committee; establishment
Section 12C Continuing habilitative services; eligibility; transitional plan; rules and regulations
Section 13 Repealed, 1986, 599, Sec. 27
Section 13A Repealed, 1978, 367, Sec. 70J
Section 14 Repealed, 2019, 132, Sec. 20
Section 15 Repealed, 1983, 688, Sec. 2
Section 16 Students with disabilities; participation in high school graduation ceremonies and activities without award of high school diploma
Section 17 Department of higher education discretionary grant program for inclusive concurrent enrollment options; beneficiaries; purpose; establishment of inclusive concurrent enrollment advisory board; annual report