STATE STATUTES & CODES

MASSACHUSETTS STATUTES AND CODES

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• Section 2 Repealed, 2008, 27, Sec. 11
• Section 3 Repealed, 1996, 57, Sec. 9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 Robert H. Goddard council on science, technology, engineering and mathematics education
• Section 5 Public institutions of higher education system
• Section 5A Governor Foster Furcolo Community Colleges
• 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 state university 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 16 Scholarship programs; guidelines
• Section 17 Teaching learning corps program
• Section 18 Qualifying student health insurance programs; participation; compliance procedures report; penalties for noncompliance
• 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 teachers program; guidelines
• Section 19E Principal and superintendent recruitment 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 or state colleges; 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 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

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