Massachusetts Board of Education
Policy on Educational Collaboratives
August 1988
Table of Contents
Introduction
Background
- Growth of Educational Collaboratives
- Purpose of Educational Collaboratives
General Policy Positions
Collaborative Issues
- Formation
- Development of Collaborative Agreement
- Approval of Collaborative Agreement
- Equity in Space Allocation
- Planning for Housing Collaborative Programs
- Planning for Least Restrictive Environment
- Pupil, Financial and Program Accountability
- Data Reporting
- Monitoring
- Organizational Relationships
- With School Committees
- With School Leaders
- With Parents/Students
- With the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
- With the Massachusetts Organization of Educational Collaboratives (MOEC)
- Funding
- Financial Structure
- Sources of Funding
- Distribution of State-Administered Funds
- Participation in State-Administered Grant Funds
- Review of Policy
Appendices
- Chapter 40, Section 4E, An Act Relative to the Authority of Educational Collaboratives
- Criteria for Approving Collaborative Agreements
- Listing of Educational Collaboratives