HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1064        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4078

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to promote civic engagement in the charter school approval process..

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

SECTION 1.  Subsection (i) of Section 89 of Chapter 71 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding after the last sentence the following:

Provided further, that the Board of Education shall approve no charter without a formal indication of support for the application from the city council, or select board, town meeting or other representative body in the community where the charter school seeks to locate.