---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 300.12"
title: "34"
number: "300.12"
heading: "Educational service agency."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/300.12"
---

# §300.12. Educational service agency.


Educational service agency means—

- (a) **A regional public multiservice agency—**
  - (1) Authorized by State law to develop, manage, and provide services or programs to LEAs;
  - (2) Recognized as an administrative agency for purposes of the provision of special education and related services provided within public elementary schools and secondary schools of the State;
- (b) Includes any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction over a public elementary school or secondary school; and
- (c) Includes entities that meet the definition of intermediate educational unit in section 602(23) of the Act as in effect prior to June 4, 1997.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1221e-3, 1406, 1411-1419, and 3474; Pub. L. 111-256, 124 Stat. 2643; unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 46753, Aug. 14, 2006, unless otherwise noted.