Biennial Report on Regional Education Service Centers.

Overview & Synopsis

A biennial report of the Texas State Board of Education profiles status and accomplishments of 20 regional education service centers in Texas during 1985-86. The report emphasizes service center role in implementing educational reform by assisting schools to meet new accreditation standards, training appraisers for a legislatively mandated appraisal system, and ensuring that Texas schools had the capacity to meet legislated curriculum standards. The report reviews historical background, service center reorganization in 1985, organization, and governance. It summarizes financial status of the centers during 1985-86 including revenue percentage/source, expenditures, fund balancing, and fiscal reporting requirements. Other aspects of center operation described include personnel and staffing, programs and services, media services, computer services, special education, accreditation, curriculum, training, textbook display, school volunteer program, migrant education, basic skills, National Diffusion Network, school health services, bilingual education, gifted education, adult/community education, educational technology, and drivers education. The appendix consists of profiles of each of the 20 service centers containing address, contact person, counties served, and information specific to the center on finances, staffing, and programs/services. Thirty-four tables and figures, including a map of service center regions, occur throughout the text. (LFL)