Education

To ensure fair due process in special education disputes

Relative to the training of school committee members

To increase student access to career technical education schools and programs which are aligned with regional labor market needs

To improve access, opportunity, and capacity in Massachusetts vocational-technical education

To establish a community schools special legislative commission

Relative to safer schools

Establishing employee screening requirements in schools to prevent child sexual abuse

Expanding career and technical education opportunities for Lynn students

Ensuring language readiness in deaf, deafblind, and hard-of-hearing children entering kindergarten

Establishing a special commission on special education funding

Relative to fresh fruits and vegetables in schools

To improve augmentative and alternative communication opportunities for children with disabilities

Relative to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

Establishing the school supplies for teachers program

Relative to type 1 diabetes informational materials for the parents and guardians of students

Establishing LGBTQIA+ parent advisory councils in the Commonwealth

Promoting healthy culture and climate within schools

Related to high school graduation

Requiring accountability for inequities in suspension and expulsion or RAISE Act

Relative to safer schools

Relative to issuing guidance regarding setting policies for the use of AI in schools

Exempting Warwick Schools

To relative to protecting access to applied behavior analysis services in schools

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to the consumer impacts of electronic textbooks

Relative to student teacher pay

Enabling all students to thrive: protecting a high quality, diverse educator workforce

Relative to testing requirements for veterans who wish to become educators

To require mandatory training on microaggressions and implicit bias for staff members teaching extracurricular activities

Adding paths to professional licensure for teachers

Relative to educator training to create educational equity for gifted and beyond grade-level children

Relative to teaching certification

Relative to the Lowell Mason Act to mandate a percentage of Chapter 70 funds for Arts Education Programs

Establishing the Massachusetts farm to school program

Reforming charter school funding in Massachusetts

Furthering enrollment preferences for high need students

Relative to charter school caps

To ensure equitable access to education, including special education services, for all students in Massachusetts

Relating to seizure disorders in schools

To provide a sustainable future for rural schools

Establishing a career-to-education data center

To establish de-escalation training in student transportation

To establish the Middle School Innovation Fund

To improve augmentative and alternative communication opportunities for children with disabilities

To require CPR training and promote careers in emergency medical services

Relative to providing health education in schools

To provide a sustainable future for rural schools

To ensure that all students are prepared for future success

Providing hands only CPR training and the use of defibrillators

To create and expand student pathways to success

Relative to cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automatic external defibrillator education in public schools

Incentivizing the awarding of industry-recognized credentials

To create and expand student pathways to success

Relative to supporting survivors of child sexual abuse

Relative to the long-term fiscal health and sustainability of special education in the Commonwealth

Providing hands only CPR training and the use of defibrillators

Requiring instruction in CPR and the use of defibrillators for high school graduation

Relative to prescription opioid abuse prevention education

Relative to substance use education in public schools

Requiring food allergen certification in vocational schools

Relative to a green energy track in vocational schools

Promoting high-quality comprehensive literacy instruction in all Massachusetts schools

Requiring equitable funding for non-regional school districts with high transportation costs

Creating a school resource officer grant program and fund

Requiring financial education in schools

Establishing media literacy education in schools to ensure all children are learning to analyze, evaluate and responsibly use the media

Resolve establishing a commission to study the funding of high-quality early education and care in Massachusetts

Fulfilling the promise of education reform

Creating a Disproportionate Share Childcare Provider Fund

Enhancing the educational outcomes of expectant and parenting students

Expanding access to computer science coursework

Reducing costs for teachers and school personnel

Relative to dropout prevention and student recovery

Ensuring high quality pre-kindergarten education

Relative to the protection of medical exemptions for immunizations for school attendance

Relative to public preschool facilities

Relative to fair educational practices

Relative to school safety issues

Relative to compulsory full-day kindergarten

Relative to student absences based on religiously held beliefs

To prevent discrimination in interscholastic athletic and extracurricular activities

Resolve An Act establishing a special commission on creating a more diversified teaching workforce in the commonwealth

Providing state support for municipal private special education costs

Relative to special education reimbursement

To promote comprehensive and inclusive curriculum in schools

Promoting racially and culturally inclusive K-12 curriculum

Resolve establishing a commission to examine expanding vocational and technical high school access

Prohibiting cell phone usage during the school day

Relative to healthy youth

Establishing a commission regarding phones in schools

Enhancing learning in the early school years through a ban on school exclusion in public prekindergarten through 3rd grade

To expand student opportunities in career technical education

To end discriminatory outcomes in vocational school admissions

Updating the charter net school spending cap

To increase substance use prevention and awareness and reduce overdose abandonment

Providing for the creation of a permanent commission relative to the education of American Indian and Alaska Native residents of the Commonwealth

To improve access, opportunity, and capacity in Massachusetts vocational-technical education

To expand student opportunities in career technical education

Relative to healthy school lunches

Ensuring charter school integrity

Honoring the commonwealth’s commitment to public school districts

Relative to healthy youth

Promoting scientific literacy in schools

Promoting racially and culturally inclusive K-12 curriculum

Relative to MassHealth reimbursement to schools

Ensuring student representation, Aidan's law

Relative to school site councils and the district parent advisory council

Concerning equitable state summative assessments of students

Relative to school committee oversight

Relative to the strengthening of financial literacy throughout the commonwealth

To promote student college and career success and civic engagement

Relative to equity and inclusion in education

Establishing an educational mandate task force

To preserve local control of Chapter 74 admissions policies

Updating the administration of medications in schools statute to include epilepsy

Relative to personal financial literacy

To ensure adequate and equitable funding for public education

Relative to teacher preparation and student literacy

To promote high-quality early literacy instruction and improve student outcomes

Establishing a special commission to review the adequacy and equity of the Massachusetts school building program

To strengthen suicide prevention in schools

Relative to the promotion of mental health education

Requiring opioid use disorder education

Providing for diabetes management in schools

Relative to emergency stock epinephrine in schools

To promote fairness between traditional public schools and regional vocational schools

Relative to charter school expansion

Honoring the Commonwealth’s commitment to public school districts

To ensure charter school transparency and public accountability

To end discriminatory outcomes in vocational school admissions

Requiring critical incident drills in schools

To protect children from adults in positions of authority or trust

Relative to school bullying

Relative to youth skin health

Increasing the Commonwealth's share of the education foundation budget

Studying the financing of chapter 74 vocational-technical and agricultural school capital improvements

To promote alternative dispute resolution for students

Providing for diabetes management in schools

Increasing access to emergency diabetes management medication

To promote social-emotional learning

To establish the Whole Child Grant Program

Providing in-district transportation funding

To establishing a commission to study the Massachusetts School Building Authority

Eliminating education funding inflation cap

Providing opportunity for youth with substance use disorder

Creating a special commission to examine regional school education finance reform

Relative to MSBA school funding

Establishing the Massachusetts farm to school program

Relative to licensed care and financial resource information for new parents and guardians

To require school attendance up to age 18 or until graduation

Addressing school exclusion policies to remedy disparities in educational achievement

Relative to an expert panel on the education of advanced and gifted students

Requiring accountability for inequities in suspension and expulsion or RAISE Act

Relative to state engagement in the education of gifted and talented students

Relative to corporal punishment

Establishing a commission regarding school disciplinary policies and bullying

Relative to securing parental consent for human sexuality education

Providing for the creation of a permanent commission relative to the education of American Indian and Alaska Native residents of the Commonwealth

Concerning education in honor of Byron Rushing

To modernize financial aid access

To promote the inclusion of American Sign Language in the Commonwealth’s public schools, AKA The American Sign Language Inclusion Act

To expand access to computer science coursework

To support community-based schools

Relative to child care cost transparency

Providing for universal pre-k for 3- to 5-year-olds

Relative to tuition-free universal full-day kindergarten

Fairly reimbursing local school transportation of foster children

Establishing an education-to-career data center

To study raising the Chapter 70 inflation cap

Relative to affirming and maintaining equal access to public education for all children

To expand the use of career and academic plans

To ensure fairness and safety in school sports

Relative to supporting student participation in 4-H programs

Establishing privacy standards for student and educator data

Requiring a mental health wellness examination for all school children

Improving student access to life saving treatments

To provide an option to opt out of free school lunch

Providing for phone free schools

To improve student and staff attendance and performance by ensuring air quality monitoring in schools throughout the commonwealth

Relative to Parental Rights in Education

Establishing comprehensive school counseling programs

Expanding reasons for excused absences from school to include mental or behavioral health

Relative to improving mental health in schools

Allowing the administration of antiseizure medication on school busses

Jason Flatt Law to prevent to prevent teen suicide

Relative to dropout prevention and student recovery

Relative to fair educational practices

Relative to equitable accelerated learning opportunities for public school students

To ensure educational rights are upheld for incarcerated youth

Relative to public school workplace security

To expand the use of career and academic plans

Relative to school start times for middle and high school students

Requiring equitable funding for non-regional school districts with high transportation costs

To expand dual enrollment for high school students in Gateway Cities

Expanding high school student access to earn industry recognized credentials

Supporting families of students with disabilities

Expanding high school student access to earn industry recognized credentials

Increasing efficiency and sustainability of student transportation

Ensuring full reimbursement for in-district school transportation costs

Changing regional school transportation reimbursement law

To allow for school districts to collect a fee associated with nonresident pupil transportation

Relative to increasing the safety and security in schools

Relative to educational freedom

Relative to alert systems in public schools

Relative to foundation budget review commission permanence

Relative to state aid for public schools

Establishing a grant program for school connectivity

Relative to the safety of schools, residences, and public assemblies

To improve and enhance the Advisory Board to the Massachusetts School Building Authority

Relative to the consideration of ergonomically designed school buildings

Relative to inflation adjustments for education aid

To expand virtual school eligibility for school choice students

To ensure fairness and safety in school sports

To remodel public school athletics through social-emotional learning

Relative to recognizing cheerleading as a sport

Relative to youth and athletics

Relative to defending the autonomy and integrity of student athletes and coaches

To establish food allergy plans

Requiring instruction in CPR and the use of defibrillators for high school graduation

Establishing farm to school grants to promote healthy eating and strengthen the agricultural economy

Relative to routine childhood immunizations

To establish de-escalation training in student transportation

Prohibiting the use of Native American mascots by public schools in the Commonwealth

Enhancing learning in the early school years through a ban on school exclusion in pre-kindergarten through 3rd grade

Relative to student and educator data privacy

Providing for alternatives to fines for failure to send

Enhancing learning in the early school years through a ban on school exclusion in pre-kindergarten through 3rd grade

To eliminate the use of the mcas for high school graduation

Fulfilling the promise of education reform

Exempting Hancock Schools

Relative to adult education and workforce

Relative to establishing the gateway city public school driver education program

Relative to securing parental consent for human sexuality education

Providing hands-only CPR training and the use of defibrillators

Relative to health programs in schools

Relative to high school professional development programs

Relative to equitable accelerated learning opportunities for public school students

Relative to civic test requirements for graduation

Regarding free expression

Creating a grant program on alternative assessment models

Relative to student assessment data

Empowering students and schools to thrive

Requiring immunizations against preventable diseases

Relative to the protection of medical exemptions for immunizations for school attendance

To ensure equitable access to education, including special education services, for all students in Massachusetts

Resolve establishing a special education funding reform commission

Relative to accommodations for special needs students taking the MCAS examination

Ensuring language readiness in deaf, deafblind, and hard-of-hearing children entering kindergarten

Establishing a special education funding reform commission

To ensure equitable access to education, including special education services, for all students in Massachusetts

Relative to neurodiversity education

Relative to accommodations for special needs students taking the MCAS examination

Relative to improved special needs transportation and student safety, "John's Law"

Relative to special education finance

Concerning equitable state summative assessments of students

To prohibit age discrimination

Parental rights legislation

Relative to school safety

Relative to special education reimbursement programs

Establishing an educational mandate task force

Relative to the location of school resource officers

Relative to independent child protection

Relative to adjusting approved costs threshold

Relative to school committee oversight

Establishing employee screening requirements in schools to prevent child sexual abuse

Ensuring student representation, Aidan's law

Implementing automated emergency response communications and coordination between Massachusetts schools with first responders

Relative to supporting survivors of child sexual abuse

Relative to educator pay

Relative to recognizing cheerleading as a sport

Relative to alert systems in public schools

Relative to youth and athletics

Relative to creating a commercial driver’s license pilot program at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School

Relative to equipping public elementary and secondary schools with panic alarms or emergency mechanisms

Requiring a mental health wellness examination for all school children

Relative to facilities grants for approved projects under the school building assistance program

Relative to wages for substitute teacher

Relative to the Massachusetts School Building Authority

Relative to testing requirements for veterans who wish to become educators

Relative to educational freedom

Insuring adequate minimum school aid

Providing for mental health professionals in public schools

Relative to vocational and trade school classes for public school students

Relative to school bullying

Resolve authorizing a study of starting times and schedules

For trauma informed and social and emotional learning supports and training expansion act

Relative to safety and violence education for students (the SAVE Students Act)

Relative to media literacy in schools

Establishing comprehensive school counseling programs

Relative to suicide prevention in schools

To remodel public school athletics through social-emotional learning

Relative to physical and social recess in schools

To remodel public school athletics through social-emotional learning

Relative to safety and violence education for students (the SAVE Students Act)

Relative to mental health education

Concerning education in honor of Byron Rushing

To promote racially inclusive curriculum in schools

Relative to teacher pathways and educator diversity

Addressing racial and cultural bias training in educator professional development

Relative to educator diversity

Establishing a special commission on creating a more diversified teaching workforce in the Commonwealth

Enabling all students to thrive: protecting a high quality, diverse educator workforce

Relative to personal financial literacy

To promote racially inclusive curriculum in schools

Promoting racially and culturally inclusive K-12 curriculum

Relative to LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum

Relative to celebrating and teaching Native American culture and history

To end discriminatory outcomes in vocational school admissions

Promoting racially integrated schools

Providing for the creation of a permanent commission relative to the education of American Indian and Alaska Native residents of the Commonwealth

Enabling all students to thrive: protecting a high quality, diverse educator workforce

Implementing elementary and secondary interdisciplinary climate justice education across the Commonwealth

To provide a sustainable future for rural schools

Relative to local approval for charter schools

Relative to school districts in receivership and the Massachusetts School Building Authority

Relative to the financial impact of charter schools

Expanding high school student access to earn industry recognized credentials

Ensuring charter school integrity

Modernizing school construction

To expand dual enrollment for high school students in Gateway Cities

To create and expand student pathways to success

Relative to carbon monoxide detectors in schools

Relative to the net school spending cap

Establishing a special commission to study the effectiveness of the Massachusetts School Building Authority

Relative to MSBA school funding

Providing school building assistance for special education collaboratives

Providing school building assistance for Special Education Collaboratives

To promote safe firearm storage education and increase the well-being of students

Improving students' access to life saving treatments

Relative to the board of elementary and secondary education

Relative to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

Relative to parental notification in public schools 

Relative to dropout prevention and student recovery

Modernizing the board of elementary and secondary education

To promote high-quality comprehensive literacy instruction in all Massachusetts schools

Relative to student representative voting rights

Relative to healthy youth

Relative to full funding of regional school district transportation

Fairly reimbursing local school transportation of foster children

To promote collaboration in Horace Mann and innovation schools

Relative to local approval for charter schools

Relative to the net school spending cap

To regulate school enrollment

Relative to emergency stock supply of epinephrine in schools

Concerning the fiscal impact of charter schools on public education

Relative to transparency and accountability in charter school finance

Relative to science curriculum standards

Relative to the safety of schools, residences, and public assemblies

Relative to student transportation

Implementing elementary and secondary interdisciplinary climate justice education across the Commonwealth

Requiring food allergen certification in vocational schools

To promote food literacy

To ensure charter school transparency and public accountability

Supporting farm and school partnerships in school meals

Establishing a commission on school segregation

For equitable workforce development

To remedy disparities in students' educational achievement

To Improve access, opportunity, and capacity in Massachusetts vocational-technical education

Relative to state reimbursement for non-district vocational school transportation costs

To promote healthy culture and climate within schools

To create and expand student pathways to success

Relative to safer schools

To improve student and staff attendance and performance by ensuring CO2 monitoring in schools throughout the Commonwealth

Relative to the training, assessment, and assignment of qualified school interpreters in educational settings

Relative to student transportation

Fairly reimbursing local school transportation of foster children

To promote alternative dispute resolution for students

Establishing an elementary and secondary school robotics grant program

Relative to fair educational practices

Resolve establishing a joint task force to study the utilization of Department of Conservation and Recreation sites for educational programming for safe outdoor learning

To increase special education circuit breaker reimbursement from 75% to 90%

Providing hands only CPR training and the use of defibrillators

Relative to special education

Establishing funds to provide for increases in English language learners in school districts

Relative to school safety and security

To expand access to computer science coursework

Relative to the screening of prospective school employees for prior investigations into child abuse or sexual misconduct

Creating a school resource officer grant program and fund

Relative to creating a commercial driver’s license pilot program at Madison Park technical vocational high school

Relative to large family child care homes

Ensuring high quality pre-kindergarten education

Relative to compulsory full-day kindergarten

To achieve universal pre-kindergarten

Providing affordable and accessible high quality early education and care to promote child development and well-being and support the economy in the Commonwealth

Relative to licensed care and financial resource information for parents of newborns

Relative to universal prekindergarten access

To ensure the health and safety of children

Relative to changing the minimum age requirement for kindergarten

Providing for universal pre-k for 3- to 5-year-olds

Relative to healthy school lunches

Relative to healthy youth

Relative to student and educator data privacy

To promote energy and economic resilience through clean energy education and job pathway programs

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to child suicide

To assure opportunity for all students with disabilities

To support healthy development among preschoolers

Relative to increasing access for vulnerable students

Concerning disposable menstrual products in schools

Relative to emergency stock supply of epinephrine in schools

Relative to Safer Schools

Relative to educational freedom

Ensuring student representation, Aidan's Law

Relative to healthy school lunches

Relative to the protection of medical exemptions for immunizations for school attendance

Establishing an elementary and secondary school robotics grant program

Providing for mandatory recess time in elementary schools

DESE Amended Regulations to 603 CMR 2.03

Relative to health programs in schools

Relative to independent child protection

Relative to accommodations for special needs students taking the MCAS examination

Relative to science curriculum standards

Relative to standards for highly qualified teachers in institutional settings

To require school attendance up to age 18 or until graduation

Expanding opportunities to demonstrate academic achievement

Providing for the education of gifted and beyond grade-level children in the public schools of the Commonwealth

Relative to wages for substitute teacher

Establishing an educational mandate task force

Relative to teaching the history of working people

Providing for bleeding control training as part of the health education curriculum

Relative to the promotion of mental health education

Relative to educator training on gifted children and their needs

Relative to a graduation requirement for U.S. founding principles

To aid school district budgets for special education students who move during the school year

Expanding student participation in K-12 school councils

Relative to providing health education in schools

Relative to special education

Relative to instruction in pregnancy and pre-and postnatal care

Providing charter school access for local students

To place a moratorium on high stakes testing

Relative to academic acceleration of K-12 students

To place a moratorium on high stakes testing for the duration of the COVID-19 state of emergency

Relative to media literacy in public schools

To reduce barriers to education and career opportunities

To regulate school enrollment

Relative to regional vocational school agreements

Clarifying the rights of employees in education collaboratives

Regarding school pupil transportation services

Establishing an online system to process background checks by the Department of Early Education and Care

Relative to quality funding for early childhood education and care programs

DESE Proposed Amendment to 603 CMR 2.03

Relative to compulsory full-day kindergarten

Relative to changing the minimum age requirement for kindergarten

To ensure the health and safety of children

Providing pre-k education for 4 year-old children in gateway communities

Creating assignment levels in the Department of Early Education and Care

To promote sustainability of state-subsidized family childcare

To support healthy development among preschoolers

Implementing an elementary and secondary interdisciplinary climate education curriculum in the Commonwealth

Relative to the reimbursement of school-based care

To assesses school integration within the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) program

Teaching anti-racism in Massachusetts schools

Establishing mandatory school lockdown drills in the Commonwealth

Relative to vocational education

To ensure equitable access to education, including special education services, for all students in Massachusetts

Providing for the creation of a permanent commission relative to the education of American Indian and Alaska Native residents of the Commonwealth

Relative to cultural studies

Concerning early college and financing efforts

Relative to safety and violence education for students (the SAVE Students Act)

Relative to school transportation

To allow for school districts to collect a fee associated with nonresident pupil transportation

Relative to safer schools

Relative to the availability of sunscreen for students

For the end of Common Core, and establishing certain other curriculum standards

Prohibiting against age discrimination within the public schools

Require the use of a computer-adaptive assessment to identify student achievement, growth, and for education system accountability

Relative to local approval for charter schools

Relative to healthy school lunches

Responding to the COVID-19 emergency by instituting a moratorium on the administration of the MCAS test for the 2020-2021 school year

Relative to media literacy

To prevent discrimination in interscholastic athletic and extracurricular activities

Relative to substance use education in public schools

Creating a school resource officer grant program and fund

Ensuring charter school integrity

Relative to prescription opioid abuse prevention education

Relative to the financial impact of charter schools

Establishing farm to school grants to promote healthy eating and strengthen the agricultural economy

Establishing a Special Commission to Re-Imagine School Assessment and Accountability

Relative to high school football Thanksgiving Day games

Promoting local control and effective training of school resource officers

Creating a special commission to study classroom temperatures

Relative to celebrating and teaching Native American culture and history

Promoting racially and culturally inclusive K-12 curriculum

Expanding high school student access to earn industry recognized credentials

Relative to school services for certain 22 year-old students

Relative to school safety issues

Promoting racially integrated schools

For  equitable workforce development  

Relative to school safety and security

Relative to the screening of prospective school employees for prior investigations into child abuse or sexual misconduct

To improve and enhance the Advisory Board to the Massachusetts School Building Authority

Relative to the Massachusetts School Building Authority

Relative to increased access to safe swimming

Relative to school districts in receivership and the Massachusetts School Building Authority

Advancing and promoting genocide education

To promote student nutrition

Relative to emergency stock supply of epinephrine in schools

Relative to school operational efficiency

Relative to the training, assessment, and assignment of qualified school interpreters in educational settings

To improve augmentative and alternative communication opportunities for children with disabilities

Prohibiting the use of Native American mascots by public schools in the Commonwealth

Relative to empowering Massachusetts students to end sexual violence