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The state's goal is for IU's to meet student and community needs in a cost-effective manner by providing services best offered on a regional basis such as special education, technical education, services to public and nonpublic schools. IN 2016-17 the CSIU16 budget is $76.7 million for programs and services and $1,073,846 General operating budget.
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 ...
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’s intermediate units were created in 1971 in an effort to help school districts operate more efficiently and meet the specialized needs of their students. Since then, these education agencies have evolved into an important resource on which school districts rely. School districts and intermediate units are separate legal entities.
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 334 F. Supp. 1257 (E.D. Pa. 1971), was a case where the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was sued by the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens (PARC), now The Arc of Pennsylvania, over a law that gave public schools the authority to deny a free education to children who had reached the age of 8, yet had ...
The workforce Education and Development program originated in 1920 in the School of Engineering and was called the Department of Industrial Education. [2] The College of Education is home to many academic journals, research centers and institutes, student organizations, and other academic programs.
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell cut funding for the PGSE program in the state's 2009-2010 budget. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Five of the programs have been privately revived and are functioning members of the National Conference of Governor's Schools as of 2014.