From the ECS State Policy Database School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary AR Adopted 07/2012 pre-K-12 Rules Governing Education Service Cooperatives AR ADC 005.01.24-1.00 to AR ADC 005.01.24-31.00 Authorizes the State Board of Education (BOE) to establish a statewide system of not more than fifteen multicounty education service coopera... More... PA Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Open Campus Initiatives H.B. 1901 - Sections 1501-G through 1508-G New Article XV-G authorizes open campus initiatives between school districts. Defines as a cooperative agreement between districts which all... More... MN Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Joint School District Pilot Program S.F. 946 Establishes a five-year pilot project to allow groups of school districts to collaborate in providing innovative education programs and acti... More... MA Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Accountability and Oversight of Education Collaboratives S.B. 2105 Defines an education collaborative as a written agreement to provide shared programs and services, including instructional, administrative, ... More... IA Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Regional Academies H.F. 645 - Multiple Sections Amends regional academies. Intead of serving 9-12th grade student, such academies are allowed to serve 7th-12-grade students. Authorizes a d... More... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Educational Service Centers H.B. 153 - Educational Service Centers Authorizes an educational service center's governing board to task an executive committee of the governing board with performing specified a... More... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Cooperative Educational Programs at Community Schools H.B. 153 - Cooperative Educational Programs at Community Schools Permits community schools to enter into agreements for joint or cooperative establishment and operation of any educational program. Provides... More... TN Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Collaboration, City and District Operations S.B. 1602 Permits a city and a special school district with coterminous boundaries to specify by contract that city funding for the district shall be ... More... NV Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Shared Services A.B. 551 Requires the board of trustees of each school district in this state to assess the feasibility of sharing services, functions and personnel... More... OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 School Consolidation Assistance Fund H.B. 2115 Allows expenditure from School Consolidation Assistance Fund to school districts that have entered into a mutual contract for a superintende... More... MT Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Revenues, Shared Services, Reporting S.B. 329 Excerpts from the fiscal note: SB 329, as amended, increases the basic and per-ANB entitlements for K-12 public schools by 1.1% in FY 2012 a... More... ND Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Regional Education Associations S.B. 2150 - Multiple Provisions Rewrites approval requirements and core services requirements. Requires regional education association to offer coordination and facilitatio... More... CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 School Boards May Jointly Purchase Employee Health Insurance H.B. 5424 Allows two or more boards of education to jointly purchase health insurance for their employees. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/Pa/pdf/2010P... More... CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Boards of Education Cooperative Arrangement H.B. 5336 Establishes a grant in fiscal year 2012 to any municipality whose board of education makes a cooperative arrangement with at least one other... More... CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Sharing of Real Property and Buildings A.B. 1080 Authorizes a school district to enter into leases and agreements relating to real property and buildings to be used jointly by the district ... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Learning Environments Demonstrating Innovation H.B. 1 - Section 3306.50, 3306.51, 3306.52, 3306.53, 3306.54, 3306.55, 3306.56, 3306.57 and 3306.58 Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: Establishes the Harmon Commission to designate, upon application, individual classrooms as creativ... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Taxing District to Jointly Fund Special Education Services H.B. 1 - Section 3313.83 Authorizes two or more school boards in a county with a population greater than 1,200,000 to create a regional student education district (s... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 State Funds and Educational Service Centers, Joint Educational Programs H.B. 1 - Section 3306.21 and 3306.22 Section 3306.21: Provides that nothing shall be construed to limit the authority of a district, charter school or STEM school to contract wi... More... ME Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Regional Education Cooperatives H.B. 724 Provides for the formation of regional education cooperatives. School administrative units in existence as of July 1, 2009 may join a region... More... MT Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Sharing Superintendents and Principals S.B. 173 Clarifies the ability of school districts to share superintendents and principals.... More... NM Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Regional Education Cooperatives H.B. 197 Allows regional education cooperatives to provide education-related services to nonmembers; allows cooperatives to apply for and receive gov... More... SD Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 shared services S.B. 140 Allows school districts to enter into contractual agreements with school boards of other school districts to provide for the whole-grade sha... More... CO Rule Adoption 09/2008 P-12 Regional Service Areas 1 CCR 301-76 Relates to the development, expansion, implementation, and management of regional service areas. On or before December 1, 2008, the State Bo... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Regional Service Cooperatives S.B. 38 Concerns the creation of a system of Regional Service Cooperatives throughout the state to support economic efficiencies in the delivery of ... More... MI Signed into law 09/2007 P-12 School District Shared Services H.B. 4592 Relates to a study by a school district concerning opportunities for sharing services with other providers of similar services, such as an i... More... IA Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Sharing and Efficiency of Operations S.F. 447 Reinstates whole grade sharing incentives and reorganization incentives. Creates operational sharing incentives; Mandates a statewide study ... More... IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Education Efficiency and Improvement Plan H.B. 2792 - Section 31 Directs the institute for tomorrow's workforce to develop an Iowa education efficiency and improvement plan, the goal of which is to establi... More... IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Education Efficiency and Improvement Plan H.B. 2792 - Section 31 Directs the institute for tomorrow's workforce to develop an Iowa education efficiency and improvement plan, the goal of which is to establi... More... VT Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 School District Authority H.B. 867 - Section 25 Authorizes local boards to make available school facilities and equipment for specified public purposes if such purposes appear, in the judg... More... VA Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Shared Vehicles H.B. 1582 Provides that any local government or combination of governments within planning district 16 may enter into cooperative agreements with a lo... More... ME Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 District Cost Sharing Agreements H.B. 1344 (also HP 1344 and LD 1903) Relates to locally approved school administrative district cost-sharing agreements which were preempted by Public Law 2003, chapter 712, whi... More... MT Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Allow off-site educational services S.B. 224 AN ACT ALLOWING A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AT AN OFFSITE INSTRUCTIONAL SETTING TO CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL IN THE SC... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Public School Academic Facilities Funding H.B. 2508 This subchapter is known as and may be cited as the "Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Funding Act." Determines the value of total ... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Study of Education Service Cooperatives H.B. 2645 Requires the house interim committee on education and the senate interim committee to jointly conduct a study of education service cooperati... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Administratively Consolidated School Districts H.B. 1177 Allows students in administratively consolidated school districts to attend classes and programs in other schools in the district. http://ww... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 School District Administrative Consolidation H.B. 1161 Provides administrative consolidation assistance to school districts that administratively consolidate. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproo... More... OK Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Governance of School Districts S.B. 216 Allows the boards of two or more school districts to contract with one superintendent to serve as superintendent of the school districts. A... More... MT Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 School District Sharing Agreements S.B. 394 Authorizes the trustees of a school district to enter into an interlocal cooperative agreement with another K-12 accredited public instituti... More... MT Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 School District Sharing Agreements H.B. 108 Authorizes a school district to enter into a cooperative purchasing contract with one or more districts for the procurement of supplies and ... More... MT Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 School District Sharing Agreements S.B. 182 Expands the Interlocal Cooperation Act to allow school districts to share teachers, specialists, or superintendents.... More...