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This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Cooperative Service Among School Districts Act of 2010.”

(a) A collaborative approach to the dual mission of educational effectiveness and business efficiency is the purpose of this educational collaborative act. The goal is to maximize both educational effectiveness and business services which will lead to cost savings. The educationa…

The board of regents for elementary and secondary education may provide for special grants that it may deem necessary to stimulate and encourage the development of cooperative service agreements that would be administered by the area educational collaborative. The regents may als…

(a) The board of regents for elementary and secondary education shall adopt rules and regulations regarding all aspects of the educational collaboratives mission and goals. (b) Instructional education programs and/or administrative and/or best business practice plans will be subm…

Each educational collaborative’s board of directors will set policies and programs consistent with the aims and intents of this legislation for approval by the department of education and developed in conjunction with educational collaborative staff. Each participating school com…

Nothing in this chapter shall allow any school district to abrogate any agreement reached by collective bargaining.

(a) Any school committee, acting for or on behalf of its district, may enter into an agreement with one or more other school committees to conduct jointly instructional education programs and/or administrative functions, provided that the agreement has been reviewed and is recomm…

Nothing in this chapter shall limit any of the five (5) educational collaboratives from purchasing, leasing, taking by gift, or otherwise acquiring, own, hold, mortgage, finance, improve, and use real estate for purposes of furthering their mission and goals to meet their adminis…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the cities of Providence and Central Falls are authorized and empowered to initiate and implement cooperative efforts, including, but not limited to, collaborative use of te…

The board of regents for elementary and secondary education shall adopt regulations regarding all aspects of the agreement. Each agreement shall fully describe the services to be rendered, the terms by which each school district shall share in the cost of the services, and shall …

The board of regents for elementary and secondary education may provide for special grants which it may deem necessary to stimulate the formation of cooperative service arrangements, and it may establish the level of subsidy that it deems appropriate to continue the operation of …

(a) Each original agreement shall provide for the disposition, upon termination, of any unencumbered funds, equipment, supplies, and property, real or personal, held pursuant to the agreement. The commissioner of elementary and secondary education shall resolve any and all disput…

Nothing in this chapter shall allow any school district to abrogate any agreement reached by collective bargaining.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the towns of Middletown, Portsmouth, Tiverton, and Little Compton are authorized and empowered to continue their cooperative efforts to provide special education programs and di…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the cities and towns of Lincoln, Cumberland, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Woonsocket, Smithfield, North Smithfield, North Providence, Johnston, Foster, Glocester, Foster-Gloces…

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the towns and school districts of Westerly, New Shoreham, Chariho regional school district, Narragansett, Jamestown, South Kingstown, North Kingstown, East Greenwich, and the Ex…

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the school committees of the towns and school districts of West Warwick, Providence, Warwick, Coventry, Cranston, Scituate, Foster-Glocester regional school district, Foster, and Glocester are authorize…