Link to Massachusetts Education Regulations (603 C.M. R. 1.00 et. seq.) governing student records, dispute resolution, parent notification, special education, physical restraint, racial imbalance, vocational education, MCAS, underperforming schools, etc.

Massachusetts Department of Education website, with announcements, advisory notices, news, descriptions and links to staff and programs, and information and resources for families and advocates.

Recommendations for post-Hancock v. Driscoll school reform strategies, prepared by the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy at Mass Inc. The report recommends that Massachusetts improve the quality and sufficiency of its public education system by making significant infrastructure changes, including increased collaboration with external turnaround partners; increasing state guidance on curricular and professional development options; developing a formative, value-added system to analyze MCAS data; increasing state capacity to provide professional development, particularly in math, special education and strategies for English Language learners; and creating state-level incentives to strengthen leadership at the local level.

This is a Report to the Supreme Judicial Court on the remedy phase of McDuffy v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Education, 415 Mass. 545 (1993). In McDuffy, the Supreme Judicial Court declared that under the Massachusetts Constitution, the Commonwealth has an “enforceable duty” to “provide education in the public schools for the children there enrolled, whether they be rich or poor and without regard to the fiscal capacity of the community or district in which such children live.” The court also declared that at that time, in 1993, the Commonwealth was not fulfilling its constitutional duty...