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, intermediate units are regional educational service agencies, established by the

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. 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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, but below that of the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

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

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of Pennsylvania, each serving a given region: *IU1 - Intermediate Unit 1 ( Fayette, Greene, and Washington Counties)
IU 1 Web site
*IU2 - Pittsburgh-Mt. Oliver Intermediate Unit (

Pittsburgh Public Schools Pittsburgh Public Schools is the public school district serving the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (except for two small parts served by the Baldwin-Whitehall School District) and adjacent Mount Oliver. As of the 2021–2022 school year, the ...

) *IU3 - Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU) (Allegheny County, except Pittsburgh Public Schools)
IU 3 Web site
*IU4 - Midwestern Intermediate Unit (MIU) ( Butler, Lawrence, and Mercer Counties)
IU 4 Web site
*IU5 - Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit (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 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 Labrad ...

(Bedford, Blair, Cambria, and Somerset Counties)
IU 8 Web site
*IU9 - Seneca Highlands Intermediate Unit (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 Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincoln ...

(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 may refer to: Places * Berkshire, England * Berks, Nebraska, United States * Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States Other uses * ''Berks'' (TV series), Filipino television series * Berks station, a SEPTA station in Philadelphia, Pennsy ...

(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 (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 - Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit (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 (Montgomery County)
IU 23 Web site
*IU24 - Chester County Intermediate Unit (Chester County)
IU 24 Web site
*IU25 -

Delaware County Intermediate Unit Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacen ...

(Delaware County)
IU 25 Web site
*IU26 - Philadelphia Intermediate Unit (

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)
IU 26 Web site
*IU27 -

Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers are ...

(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 may refer to: Places * Schuylkill, Philadelphia, neighborhood in South Philadelphia * Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania * Schuylkill Expressway, portion of I-76 in Philadelphia * Schuylkill Gap, water gap through Blue Mountain in Pennsylva ...

(Schuylkill County)
IU 29 Web site

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