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Massachusetts has four kinds of public-school districts: local schools, regional schools, vocational-technical schools, and charter schools. Amendment Article 89 (LXXXIX) of the Massachusetts Constitution defines the powers of self-government that municipalities are entitled to. Additional powers, such as the ability to collect certain taxes ...
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security is a Commonwealth of Massachusetts organization whose focus is the protection of individuals, groups or environment issues which will, subsequently, affect individuals or groups health or well being. As an executive agency, the Office is managed by a Commissioner who is appointed ...
The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment system, commonly abbreviated as MCAS / ˈɛmkæs /, is Massachusetts 's statewide standards-based assessment program developed in 1993 in response to the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of the same year. [1] State and federal law mandates that all students who are enrolled in the tested grades and ...
The Massachusetts health care reform, commonly referred to as Romneycare, [1] was a healthcare reform law passed in 2006 and signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney with the aim of providing health insurance to nearly all of the residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . The law mandated that nearly every resident of Massachusetts obtain ...
The law was originally supposed to go into effect on January 1, 2009, but then was pushed to May 1 and then January 1, 2010 and then to March 1, 2010 due to the state of the economy and confusion about the law. Identity theft and fraud are the major concerns at the core of the implementation of the 201 CMR 17.00. For example, if a Massachusetts ...
The Massachusetts Department of Correction is responsible for the custody of about 8,292 prisoners (as of January 2020) throughout 16 correctional facilities and is the 5th largest state agency in the state of Massachusetts, employing over 4,800 people (about 3,200 of whom are sworn correctional officers). The Massachusetts Department of ...
The area that is now Massachusetts was colonized by English settlers in the early 17th century and became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the 18th century. Before that, it was inhabited by a variety of Native American tribes. Massachusetts is named after the Massachusett tribe that inhabited the area of present-day Greater Boston.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ( SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Although the claim is disputed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, [1] [2] the SJC claims the distinction of being the oldest continuously functioning appellate court in the Americas, [3] with a recognized history dating to the ...