Education Security Portal Policies

Non-Discrimination Notice

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, an affirmative action employer, is committed to ensuring that all of its programs and facilities are accessible to all members of the public. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. Inquiries concerning the Department's compliance with Title IX and other civil rights laws may be directed to the Human Resources Director, 135 Santilli Highway, Everett, MA 02149, phone: 781-338-6105. Grievances relating to employment at the Department will be resolved pursuant to the procedure contained in the Department's "Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan." Other grievances will be referred to the Commissioner of Education for resolution.

Information about the federal civil rights laws that apply to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and other educational institutions is available on the website of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education at Office for Civil Rights . Inquiries about Title IX and other federal civil rights laws may be directed to the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, 33 Arch Street, Suite 900, Boston, MA 02110-1491 (phone number: 617-223-9662).

Special Restrictions for Non-Human Visitors

Special restrictions on a visitor's right to access this site apply to non-human visitors. "Non-human visitors" include, but are not limited to, web spiders, bots, indexers, robots, crawlers, or harvesters. Such non-human visitors are restricted from taxing the resources of this website beyond what would be typical of a human visitor.

Because of their potential for abuse, in consideration for access to the site, non-human visitors are required to read and observe the industry-standard restrictions as set forth in the robots.txt file

As specified by the "no-email-collection" meta-tag and the robots.txt file, email addresses on this site are considered proprietary intellectual property of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. These email addresses are provided for human visitors alone, and have value in part because they are only accessible to said human visitors. Intentional collection, harvesting, gathering, or otherwise storing email addresses by non-human visitors is recognized under this agreement as theft or diminution of value of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's intellectual property and expressly prohibited.