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In Pennsylvania, 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 school district, but below that of the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency; Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System; Pennsylvania Office of Administration; Pennsylvania Office of the Budget; Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel; Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System; Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
The Pennsylvania Department of Education oversees 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania, over 170 public charter schools (2019), Career and Technology Centers/Vocational Technical schools, 29 Intermediate Units, the education of youth in State Juvenile Correctional Institutions, and publicly funded preschools (Head Start and PreK Counts ...
Cyber charter schools enroll many homeschooled students [3] and also children with special needs, [4] who are taught remotely via computer. [5] The school is one of the 14 public, cyber charter schools operating in Pennsylvania in 2015. PA Virtual Charter School is a federally designated Title I school.
Pennsylvania CareerLink operates a number of services for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. Among these is the EARN program, which is designed to address the needs of welfare recipients in regard to their barriers to employment and employability.
In accordance with PA Act 89 of 1975, CAIU offers many of its services to local non-public schools. In 2013, approximately 10,000 students residing in Dauphin, Cumberland, and Perry counties attend non-public schools. [8] The CAIU contracts with area public school districts to provide remedial reading to eligible Title I students attending non ...
Commonwealth Charter Academy (previously named Commonwealth Connections Academy) is a large, public, cyber charter school. [2] The school serves all school-aged children in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania regardless of where the child lives. The Academy's headquarters is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) represents more than 187,000 teachers, educational support professionals, counselors, curriculum specialists, librarians, health care workers, school nurses, school dental hygienists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, vocational-technical instructors, community college and junior college educators, students and ...