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, intermediate units are regional educational service agencies, established by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Intermediate units are public entities and serve a given geographic area's educational needs and function as a step of organization above that of a public

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Description

Governance

Intermediate units are governed by a board of directors; each member is also a member of a local school board from the IU's 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.Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units testimony at Public Hearing before the Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee. November 17, 2009.

List of intermediate units

There are twenty-nine intermediate units in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, each serving a given region: *IU1 - Intermediate Unit 1 ( Fayette,

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IU 1 Web site
*IU2 - Pittsburgh-Mt. Oliver Intermediate Unit (

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) *IU3 - Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU) (Allegheny County, except Pittsburgh Public Schools)
IU 3 Web site
*IU4 - Midwestern Intermediate Unit (MIU) ( Butler,

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IU 4 Web site
*IU5 -

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, ...

(Crawford, Erie, and Warren Counties)
IU 5 Web site
*IU6 - Riverview Intermediate Unit (Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, and Venango Counties)
IU 6 Web site
*IU7 -

Westmoreland Intermediate Unit Westmoreland or Westmorland may refer to: Places *Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia *Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada *Westmorland Parish, New Brunswick, Canada * Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica *Westmorland, New Zealand, a sub ...

(Westmoreland County)
IU 7 Web site
*IU8 -

Appalachia Intermediate Unit Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York State to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Newfoundland and Labrador, C ...

(Bedford, Blair, Cambria, and Somerset Counties)
IU 8 Web site
*IU9 -

Seneca Highlands Intermediate Unit Seneca may refer to: People and language * Seneca (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname * Seneca people, one of the six Iroquois tribes of North America ** Seneca language, the language of the Seneca people Places Extr ...

(Cameron, Elk, McKean, and Potter Counties)
IU 9 Web site
*IU10 - Central Intermediate Unit (CIU) (Centre, Clearfield, and Clinton Counties)
IU 10 Web site
*IU11 - Tuscarora Intermediate Unit (TIU) (Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, and Mifflin Counties)
IU 11 Web site
*IU12 - Lincoln Intermediate Unit (Adams, Franklin, and York Counties)
IU 12 Web site
*IU13 - Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit (Lancaster and Lebanon Counties)
IU 13 Web site
*IU14 - Berks County Intermediate Unit (Berks County)
IU 14 Web site
*IU15 - Capital Area Intermediate Unit (CAIU) (Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry Counties)
IU 15 Web site
*IU16 -

Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit #16 (CSIU), 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. Intermediate units serve ...

(Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, and Union Counties)
IU 16 Web site
*IU17 - Bradford Lycoming Sullivan Tioga Intermediate Unit (BLaST) (Bradford, Lycoming, Sullivan, and Tioga Counties)
IU 17 Web site
*IU18 - Luzerne Intermediate Unit (Luzerne and Wyoming Counties)
IU 18 Web site
*IU19 -

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(Lackwanna, Susquehanna, and Wayne Counties)
IU 19 Web site
*IU20 - Colonial Intermediate Unit (Monroe, Northampton, and Pike Counties)
IU 20 Web site
*IU21 - Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit (Carbon and Lehigh Counties)
IU 21 Web site
*IU22 - Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks County)
IU 22 Web site
*IU23 -

Montgomery County Intermediate Unit The Montgomery County Intermediate Unit (MCIU) was founded in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States and is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Montgomery County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state) ...

(Montgomery County)
IU 23 Web site
*IU24 - Chester County Intermediate Unit (Chester County)
IU 24 Web site
*IU25 - Delaware County Intermediate Unit (Delaware County)
IU 25 Web site
*IU26 - Philadelphia Intermediate Unit ( Philadelphia Public Schools)
IU 26 Web site
*IU27 - Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit (Beaver County)
IU 27 Web site
*IU28 - Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit (ARIN) (Armstrong and Indiana Counties)
IU 28 Web site
*IU29 - Schuylkill Intermediate Unit (Schuylkill County)
IU 29 Web site

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