MA Legislation & Policy – Center for Law and Education

Comments by CLE on MA Proposed Revisions to 603 C.M.R. 4.00 (July 2019, PDF) Comments on the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s career technical education regulations including the Department’s May 7, 2019 Draft of Proposed Revisions for Discussion and Stakeholder Feedback.
Comments by CLE on MA Proposed Regulations, Ch. 222 of the Acts of 2012 (March 2014, PDF) Comments in response to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education’s solicitation for public comment on 603 CMR 53.00, Student Discipline Regulations.
Comments by CLE on the proposed amendments to 603 CMR 28.00 and the proposed regulations on Commonealth of Massachusetts Virtual Schools (CMVS) 603 CMR 52.00 (January 2014, PDF) Comments on ammendments to special education and virtual schools regulations.
Comments by CLE on Charter Schools Recruitment and Retention Efforts (July 2013, PDF) Follow-up comments on issues of denial of equal educational opportunity, through push-out policies and practices, to LEP students and students with disabilities in Massachusetts charter schools.
Comments by CLE on Proposed Amendments to MA Accountability and Assistance Regulations (November 6, 2009, PDF)
Comments by CLE (Attorney Joanne Karger) to MA Grad. & Dropout Prevention & Recovery Commission (April 29th, 2009, PDF) Comments in Response to the Commission’s Legislative charge, reflecting CLE’s position that the most effective way to address the dropout problem is to ensure that students receive the high-quality education to which they are entitled under law and that students not be deprived of an education as an administrative response to problematic behavior.
Testimony of Kathleen B. Boundy, Co-Director, CLE, in Support of H.3533 and S.1688: An Act to Restore Enforcement of Civil Rights (PDF) Proposed legislation would enable individuals as members of a protected class to bring claims based on state statute that they could once bring in federal court pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (prior to Alexander v. Sandoval, 2001)