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The Commissioner attends BESE meetings, but does not vote. He is responsible for managing the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and receives a salary which is determined by the Board. [8] Prior to legislation introduced by Governor Patrick in 2008, the BESE was composed of 9 voting members.
After a series of audits conducted by KPMG for the city found that the district may have overstated its graduation rates in 5 of the 7 academic years since 2014, [20] the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner notified the Boston Public Schools in March 2022 that the state would conduct a second district ...
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] It is responsible for public education at the elementary and secondary levels.
The Massachusetts State Student Advisory Council (SSAC) is a democratic student organization, whose statewide Chairperson serves as a voting member on the Massachusetts Board of Education. The Council has three main objectives: [ 1 ]
Its headquarters is in One Ashburton Place in Boston. Its Office of Student Financial Assistance is in Malden. [1] It is controlled by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (BHE), which has thirteen members, and is itself a state agency. [2]
A Meeting of the School Trustees by Robert Harris. A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution. [1] [2] [3] The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, county, state, or ...
Records from between 1644 and 1689 indicate that, lacking an official school board, Boston had the Boston Board of Selectmen oversee school matters. [1] In 1709, on its own initiative, the city of Boston opted to, "nominate and appoint a certain number of gentlemen, of liberal education, together with some of the Reverend Ministers of the Town ...
Boston City Hall. Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states the New England town form of government. All land in Massachusetts is divided among cities and towns and there are no unincorporated areas, population centers, or townships. Massachusetts has four kinds of public-school districts: local schools, regional schools ...