Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit

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rdf:langString Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21 (CLIU), located in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, is one of twenty nine Intermediate Unit Educational Service Agencies created by an Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania in 1971. CLIU provides services to 14 public school districts, non-public schools in its service region, and two vocational-technical schools (located in Carbon County and Lehigh County). The agency has no taxing power. Its revenues come from federal grants, state grants, private grants, annual payments from each public school district in its region and charges to individuals for some services like driver's education. The agency provides many services including specialized special education services and training for teachers to meet their state mandated continuing professional education with some offered online. CLIU21 also operates a Librarians' Consortium for librarians from public libraries, private libraries, school libraries and higher education librarians. The CLIU serves as a coordinating agency for the purpose of bringing together several school districts, vocational schools, businesses, higher education and community groups. The agency is governed by a board made up of one member from each participating public school districts. The members are appointed from the sending school board's elected members. Each local school board reviews and must approve the intermediate unit's annual budget in the spring of each school year. Dr. Elaine E. Eib is the Executive Director (contract April 17, 2014 - April 17, 2018, salary $149,972 in 2014). Kimberly A. Talipan serves as the Assistant to the Executive Director (salary $140,349 in 2015). Employees of all Pennsylvania Intermediate units are members of the PSERS state teacher pension system. The teacher and administrator retirement benefits are equal to at least 2.00% x Final Average Salary x Total Credited Service. (Some teachers benefits utilize a 2.50% benefit factor.) After 40 years of service, Pennsylvania public school teachers and administrators can retire with 100% of the average salary of their final 3 years of employment. The agency serves the following school districts: * Allentown School District * Catasauqua Area School District * East Penn School District * Jim Thorpe Area School District * Lehighton Area School District * Northern Lehigh School District * Northwestern Lehigh School District * Palmerton Area School District * Panther Valley School District * Parkland School District * Salisbury Township School District * Southern Lehigh School District * Weatherly Area School District * Whitehall-Coplay School District It also services the following schools: * * Allentown Central Catholic High School * * * CAI Learning Academy Computer Aid Inc. Learning Academy (K-3) * * * * * * * Goddard School * * * Lehigh Career and Technical Institute * * Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School * * * * * Roberto Clemente Charter School * * Salem Christian School * Seven Generations Charter School * * * * * * * Swain School