Efficiency and cost-containment measures.

Sec. 164o. Districts and intermediate districts are encouraged to evaluate and pursue efficiency and cost-containment measures that maximize state funding. Districts and intermediate districts shall identify practices that increase efficiencies, including, but not limited to, establishing joint ventures, consolidating services, utilizing program collaborations, maximizing educational benefits through optimal class sizes and frequency of course offerings, eliminating low-enrollment and high-cost instructional programs, using self-insurance, practicing energy conservation, and utilizing group purchasing.