Massachusetts Code — 71
Browse 196 sections in division 71 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Maintenance; double sessions; subjects; twelve-month school year
- § 1A. Period of silence
- § 1B. Voluntary prayer
- § 1C. Workshops on rights of students and their parents under special education laws of the commonwealth and the federal government
- § 1D. Prohibition of adoption or implementation of policy or code in sports or athletic events that impairs or prohibits hairstyle historically associated with race
- § 2. Teaching of history and social science; professional development; student-led civic projects; commonwealth civics challenge
- § 2A. Use of tobacco products within school buildings or facilities or on school grounds
- § 2B. Courses in American sign language
- § 2C. Implementation of policy and discipline code addressing teen dating violence in public schools
- § 3. Physical education
- § 4. High schools; maintenance; diplomas awarded to veterans
- § 4A. Failure to keep schools open for required period; penalty
- § 6. Education in out-of-town high schools
- § 6A. Admission of students from outside commonwealth
- § 6B. A military-connected student school enrollment
- § 7A. Transportation of pupils; payment of costs; limitations
- § 7B. Transportation of pupils; reimbursement of costs; determination of amount; use of funds
- § 7C. Bus transportation programs; financial assistance
- § 10. Expenses of physically disabled children
- § 11. High school; definition
- § 13. Requested courses; school committee approval
- § 13D. High schools; required subjects; driver training
- § 13F. Broadcast and television facilities; cost of program; executive committee for educational television
- § 13G. Executive committee for educational television; rules and regulations; personnel
- § 13H. Educational television program fund; accounts and reports
- § 13I. Executive committee for educational television; powers and duties
- § 14. Regional school district planning committee; creation; membership
- § 14A. Duties of planning board
- § 14B. Regional school districts; formation; procedure
- § 14C. Lease or sale of property to regional school districts
- § 14D. Regional school district planning board; agreement; approval of indebtedness
- § 14E. Regional school district committee membership options
- § 15. Acceptance of organization provisions by electorate
- § 16. Regional school districts; status; powers and duties
- § 16A. Regional district school committee; selection, powers and duties of officers; signing of payroll and accounts payable warrants; audits
- § 16B. Budgets; apportionment of expenses
- § 16C. Regional school districts; school transportation
- § 16D. Aid from state
- § 16E. Regional school districts; audits; payment of costs
- § 16F. Retirement system
- § 16G. Liability of towns for expenses of district
- § 16I. Severability of sections relating to regional school districts
- § 17A. Culinary arts program; special fund
- § 18. Evening schools
- § 19. Evening classes in high schools
- § 20. Notice of evening schools; publication; fees for instruction
- § 20A. Instructional Materials Trust Fund
- § 21. Continuation schools; establishment; conditions
- § 22. Attendance
- § 23. Use of existing educational facilities
- § 24. Cost of maintenance; source of funds
- § 25. Unemployed minors; attendance requirements
- § 26. Penalty for failure to establish or maintain school
- § 26A. Extended school services for children; establishment; conditions
- § 26B. Extended school services for children; organization and operation of plan
- § 26C. Extended school services for children; contributions and federal funds; use
- § 26D. Borrowing in anticipation of federal funds
- § 27. Lectures
- § 28. Summer schools
- § 30. Moral education
- § 31. Bible reading
- § 31A. Guidelines for celebration of holidays authorized
- § 32. Observance of Memorial Day
- § 32A. Sex education; policy regarding notice to parents, exception
- § 34. Support of schools; appropriations; recommendations
- § 34A. Transcript of student's record; availability
- § 34B. Remedy for failure to furnish transcript of student's record
- § 34D. Student records; maintenance, storage, destruction, etc.; inspection by parent or guardian
- § 34E. Inspection of student records; persons authorized
- § 34G. Private schools; transfer of transcripts upon ceasing operation
- § 34H. Noncustodial parents; receipt of information for child enrolled in public elementary or secondary schools; notice to custodial parent
- § 35. Beginning of term
- § 36. Secretary; appointment; duties
- § 36A. Orientation for school committee members
- § 37. Powers and duties; superintendent serving joint districts
- § 37A. Grants; acceptance and disbursement
- § 37B. Purchase of or making payments to annuities or investments
- § 37C. Promotion of racial balance
- § 37D. Racial imbalance; definitions; statistics; transfers; priorities; plans for elimination; public hearings; regulations; jurisdiction; costs; attorney's fees
- § 37E. Legal counsel for collective bargaining
- § 37F. Legal counsel for general purposes
- § 37G. Corporal punishment of pupils prohibited; use of physical restraint; regulations
- § 37H. Policies relative to conduct of teachers or students; student handbooks
- § 37I. Magnet school facilities; grants; application; approval; agreements; eligible costs; regulations
- § 37J. Magnet educational programs; reimbursement for cost; definition; contracts; joining programs
- § 37K. Business demonstration projects; disposition of proceeds
- § 37L. Notification to school personnel of reporting requirements for child abuse and neglect and fires; reports of students possessing or using dangerous weapons on school premises; transferred students' school records
- § 37M. Consolidation of administrative functions with city or town
- § 37N. Policy for school-sponsored student travel
- § 37O. School bullying prohibited; bullying prevention and intervention plans; reporting of bullying incident date
- § 37P. School resource officers; model school resource officer memorandum of understanding; review commission; assignment of officers
- § 37Q. Mental health support plans
- § 37R. Possession and access to two-way communication device for communicating with police and fire departments during emergency situation
- § 38. Employment of teachers, aides, principals, etc.; designation of Horace Mann teachers; performance evaluations; performance standards
- § 38A. Duties; appointment of director of occupational guidance, duties of director
- § 38C. Status of director of occupational guidance
- § 38D. District directors of occupational guidance; appointment
- § 38F. Fees for services of directors of occupational guidance; prohibition; penalty for violation
- § 38G. Certification for certain teaching and administrative positions; provisional and standard certificates; policies and guidelines regarding requirements and qualifications; applications; recommendations; review; continuing education; renewal of certificate
- § 38H. School librarian and school library supervisor or co-ordinator; tenure
- § 38I. Reimbursement of teachers for tuitions and fees
- § 38K. Public relations bureau in school departments; establishment
- § 38M. Student advisory committees
- § 38N. Proposed annual budgets; public hearings required; quorum
- § 38O. Sex education advisory committees
- § 38P. School psychologists; tenure
- § 38Q. Professional development plans; statewide assistance plan
- § 38R. Criminal background check of current or prospective school employee, volunteer, or other persons having direct and unmonitored contact with children; criminal offender record information; state and national fingerprint-based criminal background checks
- § 39. Teacher's application forms; questions concerning religion or politics
- § 40. Compensation of teachers; deferred payment
- § 41. Tenure of teachers and superintendents; persons entitled to professional teacher status; dismissal; review
- § 41A. Leaves of absence of professional staff
- § 41B. Leaves of absence; Peace Corps
- § 42. Dismissal or demotion of teachers or other employees of school or school district; arbitration
- § 42B. Rights of school employees in regional districts
- § 42C. Records of teachers; inspection
- § 42D. Suspension of district employees
- § 43. Reduction of salaries; conditions
- § 44. Restrictions on teachers' political rights; prohibition
- § 45. Procurement of teaching positions; regulation of fees; penalty for violation
- § 47. Athletic programs; school organizations; student activity accounts
- § 47A. Athletic coaches; employment
- § 48. Textbooks and school supplies
- § 48A. School safety patrols; functions, limitations; liability
- § 48B. Uniforms of school employees
- § 49. Purchase of textbooks by pupils
- § 49A. Orders for materials and equipment; contracts for services
- § 50. Change of school books
- § 51. Exhibition of school work at expositions
- § 52. Compensation of school committee members
- § 53. School physicians and nurses
- § 53A. Employment of medical personnel by superintendency district or union; compensation; removal
- § 53B. Towns within a superintendency district or union; exemption from appointment requirement
- § 54. Examination of children and school personnel
- § 54A. Physician or person trained in emergency medical care; assignment to interscholastic football games
- § 54B. Administration of medications in school settings; regulations
- § 54C. Automated external defibrillators required at school facilities; certified AED providers; hardship waivers; personal liability; regulations
- § 55. Contagious diseases; regulations
- § 55A. Sick, injured or incapacitated pupils; procedure for handling; emergency first aid or transportation; exemption from civil liability
- § 55C. Eye protective devices
- § 55D. Musical wind instruments; notification of sanitization and option to sterilize at parental expense
- § 56. Sick children; notification of parents
- § 57. Physical examination of pupils; eye examination, written report
- § 57A. Students with potential indicators of a neurological learning disability; guidelines for development of screening procedures
- § 59. Superintendent of schools; appointment; compensation; powers and duties
- § 59A. Superintendents of schools in small towns; appointment; state aid for compensation
- § 59B. Principals; appointment; compensation; duties; appointment of other personnel
- § 59C. School councils; members; meetings; duties
- § 59D. School-community partnerships; grant program
- § 61. Superintendent of schools; employment by a town union; termination of town participation in a union
- § 62. Readjustment of town unions
- § 63. School committees as joint committee; representation: meetings; employment of superintendent, removal
- § 64. Union superintendent; compensation
- § 67. Superintendents of schools; penalty for accepting fees for obtaining positions; employment of immediate family of certain persons prohibited
- § 68. Duties of towns to maintain schools; transportation of children; school building committee representation
- § 69. Display of national flags; pledge of allegiance; penalty for violation
- § 69A. Plaque reading ''For God and Country''; placement on public school buildings
- § 70. Location of schools
- § 71. Use of school property; purposes
- § 71A. Highway safety stations; designation, discontinuance
- § 71B. Adult physical fitness programs
- § 71C. Community school programs; receipts; deposit and expenditure
- § 71D. Prepayment of tuition to private schools or program sources
- § 71E. Appropriations for and expenditure of receipts from adult education and continuing education programs
- § 71F. Nonresident or foster care students; deposit of tuition payments and state reimbursements; expenditures and appropriations
- § 72. Sale of lunches
- § 72A. Implementation the federal community eligibility provision; waiver; training; certification of students for free school meal status
- § 73. Closing of school for teachers' meetings
- § 74. Management of schools funds by private corporations
- § 75. Extended courses of instruction
- § 76. Rules of admission
- § 77. Joint establishment of extended courses
- § 79. Junior College designation, degrees
- § 80. Lunch period for teachers
- § 81. Junior colleges; restriction on establishment
- § 82. Public secondary schools; right of students to freedom of expression; limitations; definitions
- § 83. Dress and appearance of students protected
- § 84. Discipline of students on matters unrelated to school-sponsored activities prohibited
- § 85. Guidelines implementing Secs. 82 to 84; rules and regulations; adoption; emergencies; procedures
- § 86. Application of Secs. 83 to 85
- § 87. Intelligence test scores; records
- § 88. Military recruiters; on-campus recruiting opportunities
- § 89. Commonwealth charter schools; Horace Mann charter schools; applications; enrollment; employees; funding
- § 90. Classroom placement of twins or higher order multiples
- § 91. Recovery High School; definition; enrollment; student performance; rules and regulations; deduction of home school district allotment for failure to transfer funds as required
- § 92. Innovation Schools
- § 93. Policy regarding internet safety measures for schools providing computer access to students
- § 94. Commonwealth virtual schools
- § 95. Reimbursement aid to municipalities for costs incurred for federal military reservation students
- § 96. Substance use prevention and abuse education policies for public schools
- § 97. Verbal screening tool for substance abuse disorders
- § 98. Instruction on the history of genocide
- § 98A. Provision of resources relative to antisemitism and societal bias
- § 99. Purple Star Campuses
- § 100. Age-appropriate media literacy skills instruction in schools; use of content from educational diversion program
- § 101. Diversity, equity and inclusion officer or diversity team