InPennsylvania,intermediate units are regional educational service agencies, established by thePennsylvania 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 publicschool district, but below that of thePennsylvania Department of Education.

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.^[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.

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.^[2]

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

• List of Pennsylvania state agencies

• Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units Web site
• Map of Pennsylvania's Intermediate Units

• Public education in Pennsylvania
• Intermediate Units in Pennsylvania
• Education in Pittsburgh
• Education in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Education in Erie, Pennsylvania
• Education in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Education in Philadelphia
• Regional education units

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