Welcome to RESA 8

The history of RESA - Regional Education Service Agencies - is a story of success and flexibility as evidenced by continual cooperation and positive responsiveness from county school systems and support by the West Virginia Legislature. Through the work of dedicated, goal-oriented staff members RESA has maximized both financial and human resources by establishing cooperation between county schools systems and other education-related agencies.

During 37 years of operation in eight districts throughout West Virginia, RESA has faithfully served education, community health and safety, and the technology that support many programs, saving literally millions of taxpayer dollars, while garnering supplemental funding from grants and other sources of revenue. RESA has brought about a level of effectiveness and quality not within the reach or scope of individual school districts and community agencies acting alone.

The movement to downsize government, the acceleration of financial pressures on the public sector and on public education, and the need for greater across-the-board accountability, all suggest that educational service agencies like RESA represent a wise public policy choice, not only on the basis of economic rationality, but technically, socially and legally as well.