Chapter 15A: PUBLIC EDUCATION
- Section 1 Policy and goals
- Section 2 Repealed, 2008, 27, Sec. 11
- Section 3 Repealed, 1996, 57, Sec. 9
- Section 3A Statewide educational technology plan; goals; development and implementation
- Section 4 Board of higher education; membership
- Section 4A Repealed, 2014, 165, Sec. 29
- Section 5 Public institutions of higher education system
- Section 5A Governor Foster Furcolo Community Colleges
- Section 5B No cost community college program
- Section 6 Department of higher education; Commissioner; other employees; appointments; salaries; powers and duties
- Section 7 Mission statements; development, approval and adoption
- Section 7A Board of higher education; performance measurement system
- Section 8 Inoperative. See 1991, 142, Sec. 49
- Section 9 Powers and duties of council
- Section 9A American Sign Language
- Section 9B Needs-based financial assistance program; scholarships; guidelines
- Section 10 Definitions
- Section 11 Council actions permitted to aid and contribute to performances of educational and other purposes of community colleges
- Section 12 Council actions permitted to provide for HEFA expenses and for payments of indebtedness incurred on behalf of community colleges or affiliates
- Section 13 HEFA; sale or lease of buildings, lands or other property; proceeds
- Section 14 Powers under Secs. 11 and 12 exercised on behalf of University of Massachusetts and affiliates
- Section 15 Estimate of ordinary maintenance and revenues; capital outlay requests; allocation of appropriations
- Section 15A [There is no 15A:15A.]
- Section 15B Budget cycle; preparation and submission of budget requests; comments and recommendations
- Section 15C Expenditures and revenues; management and accounting reporting system
- Section 15D Personnel administrative reporting and information system
- Section 15E Public higher education endowment incentive and capital outlay contribution program; matching formula; termination of program
- Section 15F Community college workforce training incentive program
- Section 15G Stackable credentials
- Section 16 Scholarship programs; guidelines
- Section 16A High demand targeted scholarship program; eligibility; duties and responsibilities of the board and Massachusetts state scholarship office; annual report
- Section 17 Teaching learning corps program
- Section 18 Qualifying student health insurance programs; participation; compliance procedures report; penalties for noncompliance; compliance with the federal Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
- Section 19 Tuition and fee waiver program; guidelines; annual report
- Section 19A Student loan repayment program; guidelines; expenses for administration
- Section 19B Teacher signing bonus program; regulations
- Section 19C Master teacher corps program; regulations
- Section 19D Scholarship program known as tomorrow's educators program; guidelines
- Section 19E Principal and superintendent recruitment program
- Section 19F Early education and care educator scholarship program
- Section 19G Early education and care educator loan forgiveness program
- Section 20 Educational opportunities information center
- Section 21 Board of trustees for Sec. 5 institutions; membership; qualifications; tenure; vacancies
- Section 22 Board of trustees of community colleges or state universities; powers and duties
- Section 22A Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center; establishment; powers and duties of board
- Section 23 Board of trustees; estimate for institution's ordinary maintenance and revenues
- Section 24 Board of trustees; authorized purchases
- Section 24A Cooperative purchasing; Massachusetts higher education consortium
- Section 25 Refusal to elect and contract with blind teaching candidates
- Section 26 Summer sessions; evening classes
- Section 27 Dormitories; nonsmoking rooms; rules and regulations
- Section 28 Establishment and maintenance of bank branch on grounds of public higher education institutions
- Section 29 Definitions; use of student fee funds for legislative agents' costs
- Section 30 Developmentally disabled residents; waiver of standardized college entrance aptitude tests
- Section 30A Developmentally disabled residents; waiver of requirements; guidelines to select students to participate in higher education; associated costs; behavioral policies; liability; duty of care; annual report
- Section 31 Administrative expenses; determination of qualifying expenditures
- Section 32 Student assessment system
- Section 33 Report assessing overall faculty productivity and teacher effectiveness
- Section 34 Benchmark study of public higher education system
- Section 35 Professional development schools grant program
- Section 36 Public schools' eligibility for funds through professional development schools grant program
- Section 37 Foundations created for public institutions of higher education; governing boards; annual reports; audits
- Section 38 Military recruiters; on-campus recruiting
- Section 39 Secondary education students qualified to enroll in higher education institutions
- Section 40 Optional retirement system; providers; regulations; participation; funds
- Section 41 Fees for approval of articles or certificates; revenue
- Section 42 Award of academic credit for student's military occupation, training, coursework and experience; educational credit for exams funded through Department of Defense
- Section 43 Immunity from academic or financial penalties for postsecondary students performing military service on behalf of the United States
- Section 44 Readmission protections, privileges and immunities for members of armed forces attending educational institutions within the commonwealth; calculation of cumulative length of absence; exemption from academic or financial penalty
- Section 45 Establishment and implementation of comprehensive training program
- Section 46 Medication abortion readiness plans; amendment or revision; determination of adequacy of plan
- Section 47 Public University Health Center Sexual and Reproductive Health Preparation Fund
- Section 48 Transfer of credits; MassTransfer program; MassTransfer Steering Committee
- Section 49 Transfer of credits; common course numbering system
- Section 191/2 Tuition, fees and room and board waiver for surviving child of parent who died as a result of injuries sustained during active and full-time military service while outside the United States
- Section 193/4 Armed forces in-state student classification; member; spouse; unemancipated person whose parent or guardian is a member of the armed forces