Board of Education v. School Committee

Beneath the relatively narrow issue of whether a single justice of this court correctly suspended a preliminary injunction lies the question whether, in a case where a child’s parents no longer live in Massachusetts, the Department of Education has properly assigned to the school committee of Amesbury financial responsibility for special needs education (see G. L. c. 71B, inserted by St. 1972, c. 766, § 11) on the basis of the parents’ last known residence in the Commonwealth.

Cindy P., the child in question, is blind (a consequence of retrolental fibroplasia), mildly retarded, and subject to…