334.005 Mission; purpose; accountability.

(1) The mission of education service districts is

to assist school districts and the Department of Education in achieving Oregon’s educational
goals by providing equitable, high quality, cost-effective and locally responsive educational
services 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 the
District 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 the
members 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 DUTIES

334.125 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 component
school districts and review periodically with component school districts the operations of
component school districts and shall submit to the component school districts plans for
operations that achieve economies and efficiencies through consolidation of various
operations of all or some of the districts. The education service district and its component
school districts shall submit an annual report on the effectiveness of the consolidation of
operations to the State Board of Education.
(no particular requirement to answer to parents, public or children-advocacy organization)
Not to be overlooked:

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

mandate, is the name of one of the prerogative 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 a judicial remedy which is in the form of an order from a superior court to any
government subordinate court, corporation or public 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 curiae (also spelled amicus curiæ; 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 a brief (which is called an amicus brief
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 phrase amicus curiae is legal Latin and literally
means "friend of the court".