Massachusetts. Advisory Council on Education

Largely as a result of recommendations made in the 1965 report of the Willis-Harrington Commission, the Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education (MACE) (officially called the Advisory Council on Education but known by the longer name) was created to recommend policies that would improve the performance of public education systems in the Commonwealth (St 1965, c 572, s 2). The council was required to make recommendations and to submit plans, based on study findings, to the Board of Education, the Board of Higher Education, and the governor, and to submit to the General Court an annual report documenting its activities and expenses. The council was also charged with submitting to the governor names of qualified citizens to be considered for appointment to the Board of Education, the Board of Higher Education, and the Board of Trustees of State Colleges.

The council was to consist of nine persons to be appointed by the governor, including a member of a labor organization affiliated with the Massachusetts State Labor Council AFL-CIO, for terms of five years. No member of the council could be employed by any educational institution or school system in the Commonwealth or be a member of a board of any public institution of higher education or of any state board of education. A chairman was to be elected annually from among the members. In addition a director of research was to be appointed who would serve as executive secretary of the council. St 1966, c 251 made the chancellor of the Board of Higher Education and the commissioner of education members ex officiis.

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