Security cameras may be used in locations as deemed appropriate by the Superintendent of Schools in consultation with school officials as well as local law enforcement and emergency response agencies.
The law requires that children attend school or be homeschooled from the first school year in which they turn 6 by December 31 until their 16th birthday.
The 1647 legislation specifically framed ignorance as a Satanic ill to be circumvented through the education of the country's young people. It required every town having more than 50 families to hire a teacher, and every town of more than 100 families to establish a "grammar school".
The law requires that children attend school or be homeschooled from the first school year in which they turn 6 by December 31 until their 16th birthday. HSLDA believes that a parent-issued diploma and transcript should be sufficient to demonstrate that a child has completed a secondary education.
Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to enact a compulsory education law in 1852. It had already passed a similar law in 1647 when it was still a British colony. The 1852 law required every city and town to offer primary school focusing on grammar and basic arithmetic.
School Attendance Chapter 76, section 1 of the Massachusetts General Laws states that all children between the ages of six and sixteen must attend school. A school district may excuse up to seven day sessions or fourteen half day sessions in any period of six months.
Section 5.08 - Informed Consent (1) The informed and voluntary consent of the individual or of a guardian if the individual is incapacitated or is not capable of providing informed consent shall be required in the following circumstances: (a) Prior to admission to a facility; (b) Prior to medical or other treatment and ...
A new regulation that requires all Massachusetts public schools to take additional steps to re-engage students before using suspensions was put into place on Nov. 8, 2022, in an effort to increase time in class and to support students through alternatives such as conflict resolution, community service and mediation.
Both FERPA and the Massachusetts Student Records Regulations protect the confidentiality of student records by prohibiting schools from disclosing, either orally or in writing, personally identifiable information from a student record to a third party without the written consent of the parent or eligible student, ...
The Massachusetts wiretapping statute, G.L. c. 272, § 99, prohibits, among other things, certain secret recordings without prior consent. A recording is not secret if a participant to the communication actually knows the conversation is being recorded and continues to speak.