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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 70, § 3 (2026)

Foundation budget; regulations; calculation of budget

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Section 3. (a) There shall be a foundation budget for the school district in each municipality, regional school district, independent vocational school and vocational school and agricultural school operated by a county.

The foundation budget shall be calculated based on each district's foundation enrollment for the prior fiscal year. Foundation budgets shall be based on the per pupil amounts in table 1 and the foundation increment amounts in table 2; provided, however, that the special education in-school and special education tuitioned-out enrollments shall be assumed enrollments. Beginning in fiscal year 2021 and in each year thereafter, the employee benefits and fixed charges allotments shall be adjusted by the foundation employee benefits inflation rate and all other foundation allotments and foundation increments shall be adjusted by the foundation inflation index.

Each district's wage adjustment factor shall be applied to all of the foundation allotments except the allotments for instructional materials, equipment and technology, employee benefits and fixed charges and special education tuition.

For each student identified as being low-income or an English learner, the increments in the following table shall be added to each foundation allotment.

(b) The board shall promulgate regulations as needed to implement this section. The board shall submit any regulations to the senate and house committees on ways and means and the joint committee on education not less than 60 days before adoption. The joint committee on education shall review and may comment on these regulations during that time period.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1990–2012 · leading case: McDuffy v. Sec'y of the Exec. Off. of Educ., 615 N.E.2d 516 (Mass. 1993).
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McDuffy v. Sec'y of the Exec. Off. of Educ., 615 N.E.2d 516 (Mass. 1993). · cites it 2× “199, § 3 (stating that, for fiscal year 1988, notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the amounts as specified in § 3, to be distributed under line item XXXX-XXXX as school aid, are in full satisfaction of amounts due under G.L.c. 70, §§ 3,…”
Town of Dartmouth v. Greater New Bedford Reg'l Vocational Technical High Sch. Dist., 961 N.E.2d 83 (Mass. 2012). “, pursuant to G. L. c. 70, § 3. Although the precise method of apportioning the expenses of the school district among the member municipalities was set forth in the regional agreement, the Special Act mandated the creation of such an agreement and specified the matters to be…”
Town of Brookline v. Governor, 553 N.E.2d 1277 (Mass. 1990). · cites it 2× “" Section 3 in turn recites that the "amounts to be distributed from item XXXX-XXXX of [§ 2] are hereby deemed to be in full satisfaction of the amounts due under" G.L.c. 70, §§ 3, 6, and 7. Section 3 also states that "[n]othwithstanding the provisions of any general or special…”
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