In Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

, Intermediate Units are regional educational service agencies, established by the Pennsylvania General Assembly

Pennsylvania General Assembly

The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The legislature convenes in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. In colonial times , the legislature was known as the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly. Since the Constitution of 1776, written by...

. Intermediate Units serve a given geographic area's educational needs and function as a step of organization above that of a public school district

School district

School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...

, but below that of the Pennsylvania Department of Education

Pennsylvania Department of Education

The Pennsylvania Department of Education is the executive department of the state charged with K-12 and adult educational budgeting, management and guidelines. As the state education agency, its activities are directed by Pennsylvania's Secretary of Education, Gerald L. Zahorchak...

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Governance

Intermediate Units are governed by a Board of Directors, each member is also a member of a local school board from the IUs region. Board members are elected by school directors of all the region's school districts for three-year terms that begin July 1. IU board members have a separate fiduciary responsibility to the IU and are not intended to be representatives of their home districts. They are funded by school districts, state and federal program specific funding and grants. IUs do not have the power to tax. Annual budgets of the intermediate unit must be approved by a majority of the school boards in the districts it serves.

Creation

The Pennsylvania state system of intermediate units (IU) was created in 1970, as part of the public school system of the Commonwealth, replacing the 67 county superintendents of schools offices which had existed since the 1850s. Act 102 created the boundaries for each IU, assigned every school district to an intermediate unit, established a system of governance and a mechanism for funding IUs, and identified a broad array of services IUs may provide. These include: curriculum development and instructional improvement; educational planning services; instructional materials services (technology); continuing professional development; pupil personnel services; management services; and, state and federal agency liaison services.

List of Intermediate Units

There are twenty-nine intermediate units in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, each serving a given region:

• IU1 - Intermediate Unit 1   IU 1 Web site
• IU2 - Pittsburgh-Mt. Oliver Intermediate Unit (PPS)
• IU3 - Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU)
  Allegheny Intermediate Unit
  The Allegheny Intermediate Unit is a branch of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and is the largest of the 29 intermediate units in Pennsylvania...
  
     IU 3 Web site
• IU4 - Midwestern Intermediate Unit (MIU)   IU 4 Web site
• IU5 - Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit
  Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit
  The Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit, also known as IU5, is one of the 29 intermediate units in Pennsylvania. This regional educational service agency was created by the state’s General Assembly in 1971, and is headquartered in Edinboro, Pa. The unit servesCrawford,Erie, andWarren...
  
     IU 5 Web site
• IU6 - Riverview Intermediate Unit   IU 6 Web site
• IU7 - Westmoreland Intermediate Unit
  Westmoreland Intermediate Unit
  The Westmoreland Intermediate Unit, a regional educational service agency, provides leadership and support in curriculum, finance, management, special education, and technology through research, consultation, collaboration, communication, training, and education to students, schools and communities...
  
     IU 7 Web site
• IU8 - Appalachia Intermediate Unit   IU 8 Web site
• IU9 - Seneca Highlands Intermediate Unit   IU 9 Web site
• IU10 - Central Intermediate Unit (CIU)   IU 10 Web site
• IU11 - Tuscarora Intermediate Unit (TIU)   IU 11 Web site
• IU12 - Lincoln Intermediate Unit   IU 12 Web site
• IU13 - Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit   IU 13 Web site
• IU14 - Berks County Intermediate Unit   IU 14 Web site
• IU15 - Capital Area Intermediate Unit (CAIU)
  Capital Area Intermediate Unit
  The Capital Area Intermediate Unit is an Intermediate Unit based in Summerdale, a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It serves the central Pennsylvania counties of Cumberland, Dauphin, northern York, and Perry. It offers services to the regions 24 school districts and 2 area vocational technical...
  
     IU 15 Web site
• IU16 - Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit
  Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit
  Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit #16 , located in the Milton Industrial Park, Milton, Pennsylvania, was created by the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1971 as one of 29 Intermediate Units in the commonwealth...
  
     IU 16 Web site
• IU17 - Bradford Lycoming Sullivan Tioga Intermediate Unit (BLaST)   IU 17 Web site
• IU18 - Luzerne Intermediate Unit   IU 18 Web site
• IU19 - Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit   IU 19 Web site
• IU20 - Colonial Intermediate Unit   IU 20 Web site
• IU21 - Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit   IU 21 Web site
• IU22 - Bucks County Intermediate Unit   IU 22 Web site
• IU23 - Montgomery County Intermediate Unit
  Montgomery County Intermediate Unit
  Montgomery County Intermediate Unit is an office in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States which provides shared services to schools and school districts in the area that it services. There are 29 Intermediate Units in Pennsylvania.-External links:**...
  
     IU 23 Web site
• IU24 - Chester County Intermediate Unit   IU 24 Web site
• IU25 - Delaware County Intermediate Unit   IU 25 Web site
• IU26 - Philadelphia Intermediate Unit
• IU27 - Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit   IU 27 Web site
• IU28 - Arin Intermediate Unit   IU 28 Web site
• IU29 - Schuylkill Intermediate Unit   IU 29 Web site

External links

• PA Intermediate Unit Web site
• Map of Pennsylvania's Intermediate Units