Highlighted in red is the region Educational Service District 105 serves, including 25 school districts. The yellow area is the area NCESD serves, including 29 different school districts across Chelan, Douglas, Grant and Okanogan counties. In pink is ESD 123 and its 23 school districts in seven different counties.
COURTESY GRAPHIC/WASHINGTON OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
July 3, 2024
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Serving schools: ESD superintendents reflect on operations, priorities
MOSES LAKE — Educational service districts are government-mandated agencies put in place to provide services to school districts across the state. ESD Superintendents discussed what they do and their priorities in operating their districts. ESD 105, led by Superintendent Kevin Chase, serves four counties, including Kittitas, Yakima and portions of Klickitat and Grant counties and provides support for 25 school districts – including Royal School District and Wahluke School District – and more than 66,000 students. “We help them collaborate with each other as well or collaborate with other partners,” Chase said. “(It’s) a lot of advocacy work, either regionally or across the state, or even federally, working on different issues that impact our education. And we provide very specialized services in certain situations in order to meet the needs of our students in our region and of our school districts.”