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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43, § 32 (2026)

Superintendent of schools; election; appointment of other school employees

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Section 32. The school committee shall elect a superintendent of schools annually, except as provided in section forty-one of chapter seventy-one, and may, under chapter thirty-one, appoint, suspend or remove at pleasure such subordinate officers or assistants, including janitors of school buildings, as it may deem necessary for the proper discharge of its duties and the conduct of its business; it shall define their terms of service and their duties, and shall fix their compensation. No member of the school committee shall, while a member thereof, hold any other office or position in the school department the salary or compensation for which is payable out of the city treasury. The committee shall organize annually on the first Monday in January, and shall elect one of its members as vice chairman, who shall preside at all meetings of the committee at which the mayor is not present.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1929–1983 · leading case: Sch. Comm. of Newton v. Labor Relations Comm., 447 N.E.2d 1201 (Mass. 1983).
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Sch. Comm. of Newton v. Labor Relations Comm., 447 N.E.2d 1201 (Mass. 1983). “” Although the Newton charter is not a statutory plan charter, this provision is similar to the provisions of G. L. c. 43, § 32, governing cities with statutory charters, which authorizes a school committee at pleasure to remove janitors of school buildings.”
Rugg v. Town Clerk of Arlington, 303 N.E.2d 723 (Mass. 1973). “The governing statute, G. L. c. 43, § 32, as it then read, 3 was very similar to the Arlington statute here in issue.”
Sullivan v. Sch. Comm. of Revere, 202 N.E.2d 612 (Mass. 1964). “But G. L. c. 43, § 32, is express. The grant to the committee in G.”
Wood v. Bd. of Election Commissioners, 269 Mass. 67 (Mass. 1929). “It is provided by G. L. c. 43, § 32, which is applicable to the city of Cambridge, that .”
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