title: Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit
text: 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.
  
  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:
  
  Al Ahad Islamic School
  Allentown Central Catholic High School
  Arts Academy Charter School
  Blue Mountain Christian Day School
  CAI Learning Academy Computer Aid Inc. Learning Academy (K-3)
  Cambridge Day School
  Carbon Career and Technical Institute
  Children First Community Academy
  Circle of Seasons Charter School
  Devine School
  Emmaus Baptist Academy
  Goddard School
  Innovative Arts Academy Charter School
  Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Valley
  Lehigh Career and Technical Institute
  Lehigh Childrens Academy
  Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School
  Manarah Islamic Academy
  Medical Academy Charter School
  Packer Ridge Academy
  Resurrected Life Childrens Academy
  Roberto Clemente Charter School
  Sacred Heart of Jesus School
  Salem Christian School
  Seven Generations Charter School
  St Ann School
  St Elizabeth Regional School
  St John Neumann Regional School
  St John Vianney Regional School
  St Joseph Regional Academy
  St. Michael the Archangel School
  Swain School
  
  CLIU Business Office
  The CLIU Business Office is the fiscal agent for all revenue and expenditures made by the CLIU. The Business Office oversees approximately 50 different budgets totaling in excess of $80 million. In addition, the Business Office is also responsible for all the external reporting to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the federal government for various programs and budgets of the CLIU.
  
  References
  
  External links
   CLIU official website 
   Pennsylvania Intermediate Unit website
  
  Education in Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  Education in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
  Intermediate Units in Pennsylvania