Public Special Education Programs in Massachusetts
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Our Collaboratives
Massachusetts collaboratives are educational services agencies that bring school districts together to form partnerships to create regional educational capacity and resources. Collaboratives benefit school districts, students, families, educators and taxpayers by maximizing efficiency through shared costs and expertise. They play a leadership role in developing a broad range of innovative programming to meet emerging needs by providing training, enabling the sharing of exemplary educational practices, and serving and educating many of our most vulnerable students across the Commonwealth.
The Massachusetts Organization of Educational Collaboratives (MOEC) is the professional organization representing the Commonwealth’s educational collaboratives. In this guide, collaboratives have provided descriptions of the specialized programs that are available to students.
This information is provided to assist you in locating a program that will provide a challenging and successful educational setting for students who are not making adequate progress at their home districts. The programs listed in this guide will meet high standards and expectations for all learners. Each program or school listed has a person for you to contact for additional information.
The 24 Members Of The Massachusetts Organization Of Educational Collaboratives
Greater Boston Region
ACCEPT Education Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Ashland, Dover, Dover-Sherborn Regional, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Sherborn, South Middlesex Regional Vocational District, Sudbury, Wellesley.
CASE Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Acton-Boxborough Regional, Bedford, Carlisle, Concord, Concord-Carlisle Regional, Harvard, Lincoln, Lincoln-Sudbury Reg, Littleton, Maynard, Sudbury.
LABBB Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Burlington, Lexington.
Shore Educational Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Revere, Saugus, Somerville, Winthrop.
The Education Cooperative (TEC)
Serving the Districts of: Canton, Dedham, Dover, Dover-Sherborn, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Norwood, Sherborn, Walpole, Wayland, Westwood.
Central Region
Assabet Valley Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Assabet Valley Regional, Auburn, Berlin, Boylston, Berlin-Boylston Regional Technical High School, Grafton, Hudson, Marlborough, Maynard, Millbury, Nashoba Regional, Northborough, Southborough, Northborough-Southborough Regional, Shrewsbury, Westborough.
CAPS Education Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Ashburnham-Westminster Regional, Athol-Royalston Regional, Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster, Narragansett Regional, Orange Elementary, Petersham Center School, Quabbin Regional, RC Mahar Regional, Winchendon.
Central Massachusetts Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Worcester, Webster.
Keystone Educational Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Ashburnham-Westminister, Ayer Shirley Regional, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster, Lunenberg, North Middlesex Regional, Quabbin Regional, West Boylston, Winchendon.
Southern Worcester County Educational Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Auburn, Dudley-Charlton, Grafton, Leicester, Millbury, Northbridge, North Brookfield, Oxford, Quaboag Regional (Warren, West Brookfield), Spencer-East Brookfield, Southbridge, Sutton, Tantasqua Regional (Brimfield, Brookfield, Holland, Sturbridge, Wales), Uxbridge, Webster.
South Region
Bi-County Collaborative (BICO)
Serving the Districts of: Attleboro, Bellingham, Blackstone-Millville Regional, Easton, Franklin, Foxboro, Hopedale, King Philip Regional, Mansfield, Milford, Norfolk, North Attleboro, Norton, Plainville, Swansea, Tri County Regional, Uxbridge, Walpole, Wrentham.
Cape Cod Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Cape Cod Regional Technical High School, Dennis-Yarmouth Regional, Eastham, Falmouth, Martha’s Vineyard Regional, Mashpee, Monomoy Regional, Nantucket, Nauset Regional, Orleans, Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Upper Cape Cod RTS, Wareham, Wellfleet.
North River Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Abington, Avon, Bridgewater-Raynham Regional, East Bridgewater, Hanover, Holbrook, Rockland, Stoughton, West Bridgewater, Whitman-Hanson Regional.
Pilgrim Area Collaborative (PAC)
Serving the Districts of: Duxbury, Halifax, Kingston, Marshfield, Middleborough, Plymouth, Plympton, Silver Lake Reg, Stoughton, Whitman-Hanson.
South Coast Educational Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Berkley, Dighton-Rehoboth, Freetown-Lakeville, Seekonk, Somerset, Somerset-Berkley, Swansea, Taunton.
READS Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Abington, Acushnet, Berkley, Bridgewater-Raynham, Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical, Carver, Dighton-Rehoboth Regional, East Bridgewater, Freetown-Lakeville Regional, Marion, Mattapoisett, Middleboro, Norton, Rochester, Somerset, Somerset-Berkley, Taunton, West Bridgewater.
South Shore Education Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Braintree, Cohasset, Hingham, Hull, Marshfield, Milton, Norwell, Quincy, Randolph, Scituate, Weymouth, Whitman-Hanson.
Southeastern Mass. Educational Collaborative (SMEC)
Serving the Districts of: Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Fall River, Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School, Marion, Mattapoisett, New Bedford, Rochester.
West Region
Collaborative for Educational Services
Serving the Districts of: Amherst, Amherst-Pelham Regional, Belchertown, Chesterfield-Goshen, Conway, Deerfield, Easthampton, Erving, Franklin County Technical, Frontier Regional HS, Gill-Montague Regional, Granby, Greenfield, Hadley, Hampshire Regional, Hatfield, Hawlemont Regional, Leverett, Mohawk Trail Regional, New Salem, Northampton, Orange, Pelham, Pioneer Valley Regional, RC Mahar Regional, Rowe, Shutesbury, Smith Vocational and Agricultural, Southampton, South Hadley, Sunderland, Ware, Wendell, Westhampton, Whately, Williamsburg
Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Agawam, East Longmeadow, Hampden-Wilbraham Regional, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional, West Springfield.
North Region
Crest Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Andover, Amesbury, Dracut, Georgetown, Greater Lawrence Tech, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lawrence, Lowell, Masconomet Regional, Methuen, Newburyport, North Andover, Pentucket Regional (Groveland, Merrimac, W. Newbury), Triton Regional School District (Newbury, Rowley, Salisbury) Tri-Town School Union (Boxford, Middletown, Topsfield).
Northshore Education Consortium
SEEM Consortium
Serving the Districts of: Lynnfield, Melrose, North Reading, Reading, Saugus, Stoneham, Wakefield, Wilmington, Winchester, Woburn.
Valley Collaborative
Serving the Districts of: Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Groton-Dunstable, Nashoba Valley Regional Technical High School, N. Middlesex Regional, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford.