Authorizing and providing for school districts to establish education administrative districts to increase the efficiency of administrative services for kindergarten through grade 12 public schools by combining the administrative functions of multiple schools districts while preserving independent district control of individual school sites; authorizing school boards to enter into agreements to establish the districts, specifying certain agreement requirements; prescribing certain requirements for formation of the districts; requiring commissioner of education review of and comment on the agreements; specifying certain notice and public hearing requirements; providing for the creation of education administrative district boards to implement the agreements, specifying certain board membership requirements and powers and duties, requiring annual reports to member districts and the commissioner relating to district activities and providing for implementation and review of the agreements and for administrative services within the districts; authorizing member school districts to levy for costs approved by the commissioner for retirement and severance incentives and other start up costs and to jointly report to the department of education; providing for additional and withdrawing school district members and for dissolution of the administrative districts
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