Chapter 15A - PUBLIC EDUCATION
- Section 15A:1 - Policy and goals
- Section 15A:2 - [Repealed]
- Section 15A:3A - Statewide educational technology plan; goals; development and implementation
- Section 15A:4 - Board of higher education; membership; tenure; qualifications
- Section 15A:4A - [Repealed]
- Section 15A:5 - Public institutions of higher education system
- Section 15A:5A - Governor Foster Furcolo Community Colleges
- Section 15A:6 - Department of higher education; commissioner; other employees; appointments; salaries; powers and duties
- Section 15A:7 - Mission statements; development and adoption
- Section 15A:7A - Board of higher education; performance measurement system
- Section 15A:9 - Powers and duties of council
- Section 15A:9A - American Sign Language
- Section 15A:9B - Needs-based financial assistance program; guidelines
- Section 15A:10 - Definitions
- Section 15A:11 - Council actions permitted to aid and contribute to performances of educational and other purposes of community colleges
- Section 15A:12 - Council actions permitted to provide for HEFA expenses and for payments of indebtedness incurred on behalf of community colleges or affiliates
- Section 15A:13 - HEFA; sale or lease of buildings, lands or other property; proceeds
- Section 15A:14 - Powers under secs. 11 and 12 exercised on behalf of state university and affiliates
- Section 15A:15 - Estimate of ordinary maintenance and revenues; capital outlay requests; allocation of appropriations
- Section 15A:15B - Budget cycle; preparation and submission of budget requests; comments and recommendations
- Section 15A:15C - Expenditures and revenues; management and accounting reporting system
- Section 15A:15D - Personnel information for certain employees; personnel administrative reporting and information system
- Section 15A:15E - Public higher education endowment incentive program; matching formula; termination of program
- Section 15A:15F - Public higher education endowment incentive program; matching formula; termination of program
- Section 15A:15G - Stackable credentials
- Section 15A:16 - Scholarship programs; guidelines
- Section 15A:16A - High demand targeted scholarship program
- Section 15A:17 - Teaching learning corps program
- Section 15A:18 - Qualifying student health insurance programs; participation; compliance procedures report; penalties for noncompliance
- Section 15A:19 - Tuition waiver program; guidelines; annual report
- Section 15A:19 1/2 - 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 15A:19 3/4 - Members of U.S. armed forces stationed in commonwealth, and their spouses and children, entitled to in-state student classification
- Section 15A:19A - Student loan repayment program; guidelines; expenses for administration
- Section 15A:19B - Teacher signing bonus program; regulations
- Section 15A:19C - Master teacher corps program; regulations
- Section 15A:19D - Scholarship program known as tomorrow's teachers program; guidelines
- Section 15A:19E - Principal and superintendent recruitment program
- Section 15A:20 - Educational opportunities information center
- Section 15A:21 - Board of trustees for Sec. 5 institutions; membership; qualifications; tenure; vacancies
- Section 15A:22 - Board of trustees of community or state colleges; powers and duties
- Section 15A:22A - Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center at Roxbury Community College
- Section 15A:23 - Board of trustees; estimate for institution's ordinary maintenance and revenues
- Section 15A:24 - Board of trustees; authorized purchases
- Section 15A:24A - Cooperative purchasing; Massachusetts higher education consortium
- Section 15A:25 - Refusal to elect and contract with blind teaching candidates
- Section 15A:26 - Summer sessions; evening classes
- Section 15A:27 - Dormitories; nonsmoking rooms; rules and regulations
- Section 15A:28 - Establishment and maintenance of bank branch on grounds of public higher education institutions
- Section 15A:29 - Definitions; use of student fee funds for legislative agents' costs
- Section 15A:30 - Developmentally disabled residents; waiver of standardized college entrance aptitude tests
- Section 15A:30A - Developmentally disabled residents; waiver of educational requirements
- Section 15A:31 - Administrative expenses; determination of qualifying expenditures
- Section 15A:32 - Student assessment system
- Section 15A:33 - Report assessing overall faculty productivity and teacher effectiveness
- Section 15A:34 - Benchmark study of public higher education system
- Section 15A:35 - Professional development schools grant program
- Section 15A:36 - Public schools' eligibility for funds through professional development schools grant program
- Section 15A:37 - Foundations created for public institutions of higher education; governing boards; annual reports; audits
- Section 15A:38 - Recruiting opportunities for United States armed services representatives
- Section 15A:39 - Secondary education students qualified to enroll in higher education institutions
- Section 15A:40 - Optional retirement program; participation
- Section 15A:41 - Fees for approval of articles or certificates; revenue
- Section 15A:42 - [See also Version 2 as added by a different 2012 act] Award of academic credit for student's military occupation, training, coursework and experience; educational credit for exams funded through Department of Defense
- Section 15A:42 - [See also Version 1 as added by a different 2012 act] Office of coordination; director; powers and duties; annual report
- Section 15A:43 - Immunity from academic or financial penalties for postsecondary students performing military service
- Section 15A:44 - Readmission rights, protections, privileges and immunites for students performing duties in armed services; calculation of cumulative length of absence; exemption from academic or financial penalty
- Section 15A:45 - Comprehensive training program for members of boards of trustees of public institutions of higher education
- Section 15A:46 - Medication abortion readiness plans
- Section 15A:47 - Public University Health Center Sexual and Reproductive Health Preparation Fund