Chapter 71B: CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
- 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- Section 11 Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec. 144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; sharing of personal data
- 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- Section 13 Repealed, 1986, 599, Sec. 27
- Section 13A Repealed, 1978, 367, Sec. 70J
- Section 14 Repealed, 2019, 132, Sec. 20
- Section 15 Repealed, 1983, 688, Sec. 2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