Supporting Schools
Creating Cost Savings
Intermediate Units have expanded programs and services that leverage the purchasing power of schools to generate savings for the districts they serve. Examples of these include
Health insurance consortia … saved at least $59 million dollars for school districts
Energy purchasing consortia … saved $16 million dollars for school districts
$5.1M in diesel/gas
$6.4M in electricity
$2.0M in heating oil
$2.8M in natural gas
Transporting Students with Special Needs
Intermediate Units provide special education transportation services to more than 13,000 special education students from more than 400 school entities.
Operating Critical Administrative Programs
24,000 digital fingerprints for background checks
Act 48 credit tracking and ACCESS billing for more than 250 districts
Consortium purchasing for paper, software, art materials and janitorial supplies for hundreds of districts