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We are Region 10 Education Service

Center. You ask "Okay, so what is a Region

10?" First off, let's turn the clock back

to 1967 to when the Texas Legislature

decided to form 20 regional service

centers. Key to their mission: that middle

word 'ESC' provides critically important

'services' to educators. Here at Region 10

we supply services to superintendents,

principals, teachers - in fact to anyone

who works at a school and even directly

to some students. We have purchasing

co-ops. We give administrators a place to

list job openings. We offer bus driver

certification, STAAR tools, school

secretary and principal roundtables,

student enrichment activities [sped up, rapidly increasing speech]

- you get the picture. At Region 10 we're awfully

busy serving more than 48,000

administrators and school staff, 55,000

teachers and 860,000 students in 130

independent school districts, charters

and private schools - that's across eight

North Texas counties and parts of two

others. So you get it. Ultimately we serve

a lot of educators who are working to

teach a lot of young minds. In short, we

like to say we're all about helping

students, providing service and

delivering solutions. We are Region 10.

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