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Massachusetts Hall at Harvard University Old Chapel at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the W. E. B. Du Bois Library in the background. There are 114 colleges and universities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. [1]
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), sometimes referred to as the Massachusetts Department of Education, is the state education agency for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, identified by the U.S. Department of Education. [4]
Charles Duane Baker Jr. (born November 13, 1956) is an American politician serving since 2023 as the 6th president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 72nd governor of Massachusetts from 2015 to 2023, and held two cabinet positions under two of the state's previous governors.
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.
The governor is an elected position. The term of office is four years, with no term limit.. Elections for governor are held on a four-year basis concurrently with elections for the offices of lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of the commonwealth, state treasurer, and state auditor.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is governed by a set of political tenets laid down in its state constitution. Legislative power is held by the bicameral General Court, which is composed of the Senate and House of Representatives.
In this video, we meet Peaches, an average barn cat who doesn’t mind blowing off work to chill with her BFF, a senior horse.Though Peaches was adopted and given a home in this family’s barn to ...
Member Party District Years Electoral history Amos Abbott: Whig: 3rd: March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1849 First elected in 1842. Retired. Josiah Abbott: Democratic