Extractions: State Government State Services Select Program Area DOE HOME Advisory Councils Board of Education Career and Technical Education Charter Schools Compliance/Monitoring Curriculum Frameworks/Institutes Early Learning Services Education Reform Educational Technology Educator Licensure Tests (MTEL) Educator Licensure Employment Opportunities English Language Learners Family Literacy Forms Directory General Educational Development Grants: Information Information Services Health, Safety and Student Support Services MCAS MCAS Appeals MECC - (Career Center) METCO "No Child Left Behind" Federal Education Law Nutrition Programs Proprietary Schools Reading Office School and District Accountability School and District Profiles/Directory School Finance School-to-Career Education Security Portal Special Education Title I Virtual Education Space - VES News District/School Administration Educator Services Assessment/Accountability ... Administration Education Laws and Regulations Notice of Public Comment for Proposed Amendments to 603 CMR 2.00 Memorandum on Public Comment Period for Proposed Amendments to the 603 CMR 7, 603 CMR 4, and 603 CMR 47 Notice of Public Comment for Proposed Amendments to 603 CMR 7.00, 603 CMR 4.13, and 603 CMR 47.11 Amendments to Regulations on Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and Standards for Competency Determination: Performance Appeals Process (603 CMR 30.00) - Adopted by the Board of Education March 30, 2004. Effective date: April 23, 2004. Notice of Public Comment for Proposed Amendments to 603 CMR 38.00
603 CMR 28.00: Special Education - Massachusetts Department Of Education Advisory Councils. Board of education. Career and Technical education shall meet the requirements of the massachusetts Certification regulations, 603 CMR 7.00 and the requirements for http://www.doe.mass.edu/lawsregs/603cmr28
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MASSPAC-Mass. Board Of Education Passes New SpEd Regulations massachusetts Association of Special education Parent Advisory Councils (MASSPAC) massachusetts Board of education. Passes New Special education regulations. ( Courtesy of the Federation for Children http://www.masspac.org/laws/new_regulations.htm
Extractions: Passes New Special Education Regulations (Courtesy of the Federation for Children With Special Needs. www.fcsn.com March 28, 2000 - By a vote of 8-0, with 1 member abstaining, the Board of Education voted to adopt newly revised proposed special education regulations. Despite some concerns over potential conflicts with both state and federal law, the board decided it was in the Department's best interest to move forward with the new regulations so that local school systems could receive training on the regulations this spring and implement them in September. Chief author of the regulations, Marcia Mittnacht, Director of the Office of Special Services, was asked several questions by members of the Board before the vote was taken. When asked if the regulations met with approval from the United States Department of Education, Mittnacht stated that the USDOE had reviewed the proposed regulations and "had some minor concerns" which were subsequently addressed. Members of the Board discussed the possible ramifications of passing new regulations while the state legislature is considering its own changes to special education law. James Peyser, Chairman of the Board of Education, suggested that some legislators privately would like the Board to vote on the new regulations to force special education reform at some level. Commissioner David Driscoll assured members the new regulations could be adjusted to conform to any changes the legislature might make to special education law. In the end, the Board decided to make special education reforms at the Department level.
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Official site for information on 842square mile stretch of open water at the mouth of massachusetts Bay. Includes marine resources, education and research programs, news, history, wildlife watching and regulations. http://stellwagen.nos.noaa.gov/
Extractions: Wildlife Watching ... About this Site WELCOME to the Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary Web Page The Gerry E. Studds-Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary 's mission is to conserve, protect, and enhance the biodiversity, ecological integrity, and cultural legacy of this 842-square-mile stretch of open water and the seafloor below located at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay. Come visit the Sanctuary (either virtually or physically) and discover the fascinating creatures and exciting work now taking place in this magnificant national treasure. Working Group Meetings for SBNMS
Extractions: School Reform in Massachusetts: Comparing Educational Initiatives in 1893 and 1997 Michael Lorenzen The concept of reforming and changing schooling is not a new idea. This desire to make schools better has a long tradition. There are many examples of this throughout American history. However, one good example is the case of schools in Massachusetts. Two documents demonstrate the different ways educational reform has been approached. This essay will examine the written record of a speech made by Charles Eliot in 1893 where he laid out six key changes he felt were necessary for grammar schools in Massachusetts. This essay will also look at report published in 1997 by the Massachusetts Department of Education examining five years of state mandated educational reform initiatives in schooling. Surprisingly, many of the themes addressed by Eliot in 1893 are still being thought about in 1997 although there are also many differences in the documents. Description of the 1893 Speech Charles Eliot, the President of Harvard University, gave a speech at the Massachusetts State Teachers' Association Conference in December of 1893. The speech was titled, "The Grammar School of the Future." A written version of this speech was included in a collection of Eliot's work
Massachusetts Special Education Revised Regulations the provision by massachusetts public schools of special education and related services to the requirements of the massachusetts Certification regulations, 603 CMR 7.00 and the http://www.fcsn.org/ch766/revregs.htm
Extractions: 28.01: Authority, Scope and Purpose (3) The purpose of 603 CMR 28.00 is to ensure that eligible Massachusetts students receive special education services designed to develop the students individual educational potential in the least restrictive environment in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. [Back to Top] 28.02: Definitions Approved private special education school or approved program shall mean a private day or residential school, within or outside Massachusetts, that has applied to, and received approval from, the Department according to the requirements specified in 603 CMR 28.09. Approved public special education school shall mean a program operated by a public school or an educational collaborative providing full day or residential special education services to eligible students in a facility serving primarily students with disabilities. Such program shall be approved when it has applied to, and received approval from, the Department according to the requirements specified in 603 CMR 28.09. Certified special educator shall mean a person with a teaching certificate in an area of special education or a related service provider with appropriate certification or license in his or her professional area. Certification shall meet the requirements of the Massachusetts Certification Regulations, 603 CMR 7.00 and the requirements for recertification at 603 CMR 44.00, as necessary. A certified special educator may provide, design, or supervise special education services.
CMR Index, By Mass. Trial Court Law Libraries Blind, massachusetts Commission for 111 CMR. Blood and Tissue Transfusion regulations. 105 CMR 135.00. Board of Regents of Higher education. 610 CMR. http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/cmrindex.html
Extractions: Law Libr aries Mass. Trial Court Law Libraries Laws, Regulations, Cases Mass. Primary Law CMR ... S-Z SUBJECT CITATION A Accident and Sickness Insurance, Individual... 211 CMR 42.00 Acupuncture 243 CMR 4.00-5.00 Adjutant General, Office of... 510 CMR Administration, Division of... 835 CMR Administration and Finance, Executive Office 801 CMR Administrative Law Appeals, Division of... 820 CMR Adoption 110 CMR 7.200-7.215 Adoption Services Standards for the Licensure 102 CMR 5.00 Advertising Regulations, Retail... 940 CMR 6.00 Aeronautics Commission, Massachusetts... 702 CMR Affirmative Action Regs.Bd of Higher Educ. 610 CMR 6.00 Aid to Families with Dependent Children 106 CMR 203.00-208.00 AIDS Related Information for Insurance 211 CMR 36.00 Air Pollution Control 310 CMR 7.00 Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission 204 CMR AlcoholicsHalfway Houses 105 CMR 165.00 Allied Health Profession, Board of... 259 CMR 262 CMR Ambulance Services and Coordination Emergency 105 CMR 170.00
Code Of Massachusetts Regulations Index S-Z 430 CMR 10.00. Unit Pricing regulations. 202 CMR 5.00. 256 CMR. Vocational education. 603 CMR 4. 313 CMR. Water Resources Authority, massachusetts 360 CMR. http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/cmrs-z.htm
Extractions: Law Libr aries Mass. Trial Court Law Libraries Laws, Regulations, Cases Mass. Primary Law CMR ... S-Z SUBJECT CITATION S Safe Driver Insurance Plan 211 CMR 88.00 Safe Roads 501 CMR 2.00 Sales and Use Tax 830 CMR 64H.00 Sanitarians, Board of Registration of... 255 CMR Sanitary Code 105 CMR 400.00 Sanitary SewageSubsurface Disposal Requirements 310 CMR 15.00 School Buses, Minimum Standards 540 CMR 7.00 School District, Regional 603 CMR 41.00 Seasonal Employment 430 CMR 12.00 Secretary of the Commonwealth, Office of... 950 CMR Securities, Registration of... 950 CMR 13.300 Security and Privacy Council 806 CMR Self-Insurance Groups, Worker's Compensation 211 CMR 67.00 Septage and Sludge, Land Application of 310 CMR 32.00 Septic (Title 5) 310 CMR 15.00 Sewer System Extension and Connection Permit Program 314 CMR 7.00 Sex Offender Registry Board 803 CMR 1 Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD), Reporting and Control of... 105 CMR 340.00 Ship Chandlers 204 CMR 5.00 Ski Safety Signs 526 CMR 8.00 Sludge and Septage, Land Application of
Directory Profiles - Massachusetts Department Of Education Information Services. Laws regulations. Health, Safety and Student Support massachusetts. Public School/District. Private School. Charter School. Collaborative. Special education School http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/
Extractions: State Government State Services Select Program Area DOE HOME Advisory Councils Board of Education Career and Technical Education Charter Schools Compliance/Monitoring Curriculum Frameworks/Institutes Early Learning Services Education Reform Educational Technology Educator Licensure Tests (MTEL) Educator Licensure Employment Opportunities English Language Learners Family Literacy Forms Directory General Educational Development Grants: Information Information Services Health, Safety and Student Support Services MCAS MCAS Appeals MECC - (Career Center) METCO "No Child Left Behind" Federal Education Law Nutrition Programs Proprietary Schools Reading Office School and District Accountability School and District Profiles/Directory School Finance School-to-Career Education Security Portal Special Education Title I Virtual Education Space - VES News District/School Administration Educator Services Assessment/Accountability ... Security Portal Login For more about the sources of information and definitions of terms, select Profiles Help
Letter To Massachusetts Department Of Education, April 1999 My comments on the proposed changes to massachusetts Special education regulations concern your proposal to allow schools to call a hearing before funding an http://rsaffran.tripod.com/DOE-99-04-22.html
Extractions: Malden, MA 02148-5023 Dear Department of Education Members This is a story of two young children in Brookline, Massachusetts. One is rich, the other poor. Both were born with a severe developmental disability. Despite that, each had within him the potential for normal development. Both had parents who were willing to dedicate their lives to getting them the special education services they needed to achieve that potential. Both needed that dedication, because the local educational authorities went to great effort to deny access to those services. The rich child was the first to enter the system. Before age three he was seen by the school’s "Early Childhood Specialist." It took the school over half a year to begin any service delivery—time, precious time, in which he could have made substantial progress, but instead was allowed to fall further into disability. He started group speech therapy, twice a week, even though that provided less than 2% of the accepted standard of services for a child with his disability. Then a part-time preschool program. He did not learn to talk or to play. He did learn to attack other children, so that his disability became a prison for his entire family. So the parents of the rich child took some of the money they got back from the school and used it to pay for an independent evaluation of the poor child. They hired the same expensive lawyer. And, after the expected delays, the poor child got the same program as the rich child.
Massachusetts Board Of Higher Education: Guidelines & Regulations Section Guidelines and regulations Section of the massachusetts Board of Higher education. Contains Independent Institutions, 610 CMR, NEASC Accredited Institutions, Out of State Institutions, Application http://www.mass.edu/guidelines/home.asp
March 2000 Testimony Before The Massachusetts Education Committee Testimony before the massachusetts Joint House and Senate regarding the 2000 special education reform bills (S thanks to the current Chapter 766 regulations. http://rsaffran.tripod.com/testimony2000.html
Extractions: Testimony before the Massachusetts Joint House and Senate Committee on Education regarding the 2000 special education reform bills (S. 309, S. 208, and HR 2678), 15 March 2000 My son has autism. He also has a future, thanks to the current Chapter 766 regulations. In all the debate on "maximum feasible benefit" versus "appropriate education" I have not once heard anyone define those terms. An answer lies in my child's story. Autism is an emergency. If treatment is prompt and guided by proven best practice, partial or even total recovery is possible. Delaying help, or using watered-down methods, all but guarantees a lifetime of disability. We never took my son to the emergency room. Why? Because you [the legislature] made a rule: "Autism is an educational problem." Exit everything that makes American medical care the best in the world: a choice of doctors, exhaustive training, routine second opinions, and above all, accountability. Enter the world of special education: no competition, no choice of providers, and no means - none at all - to hold the providers accountable for their mistakes. So we took our severely disabled son to the Brookline public schools, where an educational administrator and a social worker took responsibility for his future. They gave him a free and appropriate education. This is what happened after a year-and-a-half of their best efforts: he was another seven months farther behind age level, and had developed dangerous, aggressive behaviors. I choose my terms with great care here. I have talked to parents all over the country, and read dozens of court decisions, and I know that what they did to my son is entirely consistent with the definition of an "appropriate education" for an autistic child.
Extractions: Massachusetts Association of Special Education Parent Advisory Councils (MASSPAC) Proposed Special Education Regulations Weaken Assistive Technology Provisions The Department of Education has announced a rewrite of the Massachusetts special education regulations. The changes proposed by the DOE will affect almost every element of the provision of special education: eligibility, assessments, provision of services, placements, TEAM procedures, classroom size, parent participation and many other aspects. An overall theme of the proposed regulations is to remove strong state controls and to allow local school districts more discretion to "experiment." These changes will diminish twenty years of strong protections for students and their families. In many respects, the regulations will weaken current provisions that help students access assistive technology and assistive technology services through special education. Some of the changes that will affect student’s access to assistive technology in special education include: eliminating the obligation that programs will provide for the maximum possible development in the least restrictive environment of a child with special needs;
Rules And Regulations: CMR 252-2.00 CMR 252. Rules and regulations. 2.00 Requirements for Certification licensed under the massachusetts Public Accountancy Act to comply with continuing education requirements. The http://www.state.ma.us/reg/boards/pa/cmr/25202.htm
Extractions: 2.00: Requirements for Certification Eligibility of Candidates to Take Examination (2) All candidates must sit for all parts of the examination at their first sitting and thereafter until conditional credit is earned. To sit for the examination, a candidate must be not less than 18 years of age and must: (a) have qualified and sat for a uniform certified public accountant examination in Massachusetts prior to November 1975; or (b) meet the educational (but not the experience) requirements of 252 CMR 2.07(2); or (3) Effective with initial application for admission to the November 1992 examination, an accounting concentration shall be defined as a minimum of 24 semester hours (36 quarter hours) in accounting subjects (Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation). Accounting subjects do not include elementary or introductory accounting courses. Prior to the November 1992 examination, no particular course requirements need be fulfilled. The minimum accounting course requirement for an accounting concentration shall consist of the following subjects: Intermediate/Financial Accounting
Extractions: Information Sheet The Board defines Continuing Education (CE) in nursing as "… planned, organized learning experiences designed to augment the knowledge, skills, attitudes for the enhancement of nursing practice, to the end of improving health care to the public." (ref: 244 CMR 5.00). Massachusetts nurses need 15 contact hours of CE credits to renew their licenses. All contact hours need to be completed within the two years immediately preceding the renewal of registration. The registration period is birthdate to birthdate in the even numbered years for Registered Nurses and birthdate to birthdate in the odd numbered years for Practical Nurses. New licensees are not required to submit evidence of continuing education for the current registration period (first renewal). Fifteen (15) contact hours will be required thereafter. One (1) contact hour 50 minutes One (1) contact hour Two (2) clinical hours equivalent to 100 minutes Ten (10) contact hours One (1) continuing education unit (C.E.U)
Extractions: online services agencies elected officials Select Program Area DOE HOME Advisory Councils Board of Education Career and Technical Education Charter Schools Compliance/Monitoring Curriculum Frameworks/Institutes Early Learning Services Education Reform Educational Technology Educator Licensure Tests (MTEL) Educator Licensure Employment Opportunities English Language Learners Family Literacy Forms Directory General Educational Development Grants: Information Information Services Health, Safety and Student Support Services MCAS MCAS Appeals MECC - (Career Center) METCO "No Child Left Behind" Federal Education Law Nutrition Programs Proprietary Schools Reading Office School and District Accountability School and District Profiles/Directory School Finance School-to-Career Education Security Portal Special Education Title I Virtual Education Space - VES News District/School Administration Educator Services Assessment/Accountability ... Information Services Virtual Education Space The Massachusetts Department of Education's Virtual Education Space (VES) is the Commonwealth's set of free web-based communication and collaboration tools and online programs designed to support PreK-12 standards-based education in Massachusetts. Explore our site to learn more, including how you can upload up to 100 megs of files and folders, participate in interactive discussion forums, and search state standards and district learning objectives.
Massachusetts Wildlife Outdoor Recreation under the authority of the massachusetts Division of limits and all other pertinent regulations for the and a brief description of education programs offered http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfwrec.htm
Massachusetts Office Of Child Care Services to child care programs in massachusetts that accept public education, including public preschool education . Record Information (CORI) regulations OCCS has http://www.qualitychildcare.org/
Extractions: You've got child care questions. We've got the answers. The Massachusetts Office of Child Care Services web site is the place for parents and child care providers to get answers to their important questions about child care and early education. Our agency aim: to make sure all children receive the highest quality child care from providers in Massachusetts. These revisions allow teens participating in YPP programs access to full time child care; restrict "incapacity of parent" as a service need to one parent only in foster parent or guardian families; and clarify service need hours for college students during the summer term. For a copy of the policy, click here The Office of Child Care Services, in collaboration with the Massachusetts School-Age Coalition (MSAC), is pleased to announce a new multi-year initiative to formalize a professional development and quality improvement system for school-age child care programs serving children ages 5-14 years. To read more about this
JOINT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, ARTS AND HUMANITIES 276 Physical education, regulations. 4699 State education aid to Committee directory, General Court home page, or Commonwealth of massachusetts home page http://www.state.ma.us/legis/comm/j14.htm
MGL - Part 1 - Table Of Contents VOCATIONAL education. THE massachusetts TURNPIKE AUTHORITY AND THE METROPOLITAN HIGHWAY SYSTEM. regulations AND BYLAWS RELATIVE TO WAYS AND BRIDGES. http://www.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/gl-pt1-toc.htm
