HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1346        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3432

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to enrolment preferences for children of employees of charter schools..

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

Chapter 71 is hereby amended in section 89 (n) by adding at the end thereof the following new language:-

“The board of trustees of a commonwealth charter school may offer enrollment preference to children of teachers and staff, employed at least half-time at said commonwealth charter school, provided, however, preference shall be given first to siblings of currently enrolled students.”