HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 569        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1177

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to establishing a tuition free program for teachers and paraprofessionals..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 19 of Chapter 15A of the Massachusetts General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

The Board of Higher Education shall institute, in conjunction with the Board of Education, a program to allow any public school teacher or paraprofessional presently working in the Commonwealth to attend courses at public institutions of Higher Education in the Commonwealth at no tuition cost.