Code of Massachusetts Regulations
603 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Title 603 CMR 27.00 - Student Learning Time
Section 27.01 - Scope and Purpose
Universal Citation: 603 MA Code of Regs 603.27
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1)603 CMR 27.00 is promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education pursuant to M.G.L. c. 69, § 1G, which requires the Board to establish the minimum length for a school day and the minimum number of days in a school year for Massachusetts public schools, and M.G.L. c. 69, § 1B, which requires the Board to establish standards to ensure that every student shall attend classes in a safe environment.
(2) The purposes of 603 CMR 27.00 are:
(a) to
ensure that every public school in the Commonwealth provides its students with
the structured learning time needed to enable the students to achieve
competency in "core subjects" and "other subjects" as defined in
603 CMR 27.02;
and
(b) to establish health and
safety standards for schools during a declared state of emergency or other
exigent circumstances that adversely affect the safe environment of schools as
determined by the Board.
(3) The requirements set forth in 603 CMR 27.00 are not intended to confer privately enforceable legal rights upon individual students, or persons acting on their behalf.
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