Our Mission: The Capital Area Intermediate Unit will achieve educational excellence with families, schools and communities through leadership, partnership and innovation.
Our Vision: Educational Excellence through Leadership, Partnership and Innovation.
The CAIU is one of 29 regional educational service agencies in Pennsylvania. We serve Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, and Northern York Counties in south central PA. We focus our efforts on our 24 member school districts, 2 area vocational technical schools, over 60 non-public schools, several charter schools and cyber charter schools. In addition, we operate the Capital Area School for the Arts (CASA), Capital Area Adventures (CAA), and the Capital Region Partnership for Career Development (PCD). We also work very closely with our partners in higher education.
Several statewide projects are administered by the CAIU, including Classrooms for the Future, Distinguished Educator, eStrategic Plan, and the PA Academic Standards Revision Project.
We currently employ about 550 persons who work on one of our six teams: Administrative Services, Business & Operations, Curriculum Services, Human Resources and Communications Services, Student Services and Technology Services.
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