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National ESA executive briefs Senate Finance on governance models, funding and shared services
Summary
Joan Wade of the Association of Educational Service Agencies told the Senate Finance committee that regional ESAs provide shared special-education services, cooperative purchasing and technical support; she described governance options and three common funding models.
Joan Wade, executive director of the Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA), told the Senate Finance committee that educational service agencies — sometimes called CESAs, AEAs, intermediate units or ESCs — are regional organizations that help school districts share specialized services and reduce costs.
"Educational service agencies serve a region of public schools in each state and they have a diverse portfolio of services," Wade said in her…
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