MASC public policy priorities for public education in 2023 are now available.
2023 Legislative Priorities include:
- Full funding for the Student Opportunity Act
- Children’s Services Safety Net
- Full funding for the Special Education Circuit Breaker
- Establishing Regional Reserve Assessment Funds and Expanding Vocational Education Reserve Funds as approved by the MASC Delegate Assembly
- Reforming of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
- Rethinking the State Accountability System
- Earmarking Special Education Funding for Small and Rural Districts
- Retention of Medicaid Reimbursement for Covered Services
- Charter School Oversight and Reform
- METCO
- Vocational Technical School Enrollment
- Establish Incentives for More Students to Become Educators
- Continued Support for Leadership Development Incentive
- Counting Students Where They Live
- Addressing the Concerns of Native Americans in Massachusetts
- Retain a Powerful Voice for the Community in the Oversight and Governance of its Public Schools
- Protect the Right to Privacy as a Matter of Equity
- Update Open Meeting Law
- Opposing Efforts to Diminish the Authority of the School Committee
- Opposing, at this time, Efforts to make it easier for administrators to suspend or expel students without appropriate due process
Read a full description of all the priorities here.