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Recent updates:

• Update: March 2025

  Dear Subscriber:

  Thank you for updating your reference library with the 2025 edition of the Massachusetts School Law Sourcebook & Citator . This product combines the latest in sourcebook materials—statutes, regulations, and administrative resources—with a case digest summarizing selected 2024 decisions from the Bureau of Special Education Appeals (BSEA). The book's entire contents are downloadable, along with additional administrative materials and ten years of collected decision abstracts, for enhanced access and searchability.

  Highlights from the updates for 2025 include

  • amendments to the Massachusetts General Laws addressing
    • monitoring systems to detect drivers passing school buses in violation of G.L. c. 90, §§ 14 and 14C;
    • obligations to provide students with information on postsecondary financial aid;
    • implementation of the 2024 ballot question ending use of the MCAS test to determine eligibility for graduation;
    • encouragement of age-appropriate media literacy skills; and
    • responsibilities of mandated reporters to communicate regarding suspected abuse or neglect;

  • amended hearing rules for special education appeals;

  • recently issued guidance from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on graduation requirements, the rights of immigrant students, obligations to address incidents of hate and bias, and enrolling newcomer students; and

  • summaries of sixteen BSEA decisions issued during 2024, addressing issues such as
    • questions regarding the support available to twenty- and twenty-one-year-old students;
    • the interaction of a school's disciplinary policies with its obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and
    • various assessments of whether individualized education programs were affording students the free appropriate public education to which they were entitled.

  Thank you for your continued support as we at MCLE strive to bring you the latest solutions for your practice.

  Very truly yours,

  John M. Lawlor, Esq., MCLE Publications Attorney

Table of Contents

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Selected Massachusetts Laws

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Massachusetts Regulations and Rules

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Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Administrative Materials

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Federal Statutes

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Federal Regulations

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Case Digest

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Appendix

Cumulative Case Digest 2013-2024

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