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334.005 Mission; purpose; accountability. (1) The mission of education service districts isto assist school districts and the Department of Education in achieving Oregons educationalgoals by providing equitable, high quality, cost-effective and locally responsive educationalservices at a regional level

(5) An education service district shall remain accountable to:

(a) The public at large;

(b) The component school districts; and

(c) The State Board of Education. [1963 c.544 1; 1975 c.477 1; 1983 c.610 2;1993 c.784 1; 2001 c.518 2]

326.136 District Best Business Practices Advisory Committee. (1) There is established theDistrict Best Business Practices Advisory Committee. The advisory committee shall consist of:

(a) One member appointed by the President of the Senate from among the members of the

Senate;

(b) One member appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from among themembers of the House of Representatives; and

(c) The following members appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction:

(A) One member who is a representative of district school of district administrators;

(C) One member who is a representative of district teachers;

(D) One member who is employed by a district as a business manager;

(E) One member who is a member of a board of directors of an education service district; and

(F) One member who is a representative of district classified employees.

(no space held open for parents, public or children-advocacy organization)

POWERS AND DUTIES334.125 Status of board; powers and duties; rules. (1) The education service district is a

body corporate...

(9)(a) The education service district shall work cooperatively with componentschool districts and review periodically with component school districts the operations ofcomponent school districts and shall submit to the component school districts plans foroperations that achieve economies and efficiencies through consolidation of variousoperations of all or some of the districts. The education service district and its componentschool districts shall submit an annual report on the effectiveness of the consolidation ofoperations to the State Board of Education.

(no particular requirement to answer to parents, public or children-advocacy organization)

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Not to be overlooked:

1. A writ of mandamuswrit of mandamuswrit of mandamuswrit of mandamus ormandamusmandamusmandamusmandamus(which means "we command" in Latin), or sometimes

mandate, is the name of one of theprerogative writs in the common law, and is "issued by a

superior court to compel a lower court or a government officer to perform mandatory or purely

ministerial duties correctly".[1]

Mandamus is ajudicial remedy which is in the form of an order from a superior court to any

government subordinate court,corporation orpublic authority to do or forbear from doing some

specific act which that body is obliged under law to do or refrain from doing, as the case may be,

and which is in the nature of public duty and in certain cases of a statutory duty.[2] It cannot be

issued to compel an authority to do something against statutory provision.

An amicus curiaeamicus curiaeamicus curiaeamicus curiae(also spelled amicus curiamicus curiamicus curiamicus curi; plural amici curiae) is someone, not a party to a

case, who volunteers to offer information to assist a court in deciding a matter before it. The

information provided may be a legal opinion in the form of abrief(which is called an amicusamicusamicusamicusbriefbriefbriefbrief

when offered by an amicus curiae), a testimony that has not been solicited by any of the parties,

or a learned treatise on a matter that bears on the case. The decision on whether to admit the

information lies at the discretion of the court. The phraseamicus curiaeis legal Latin and literally

means "friend of the courtfriend of the courtfriend of the courtfriend of the court".