Local Education Agency (LEA) providers as a group are made up primarily of business entities and/or provider groups. The Local Education Agency (LEA) specialty is generally very female-friendly with a large majority (89%) of providers reporting as female compared to only 10% reporting as male. People living in New York, Pennsylvania, California, Ohio, and Texas enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Local Education Agency (LEA) providers practice. In all, there are 14,417 registered Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in the United States with over 1,172 of those located in New York alone while around 925 chose to practice in Pennsylvania.
Local Education Agency (LEA) providers have been assigned the 251300000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Local Education Agency (LEA) specialists practice in 57 different states/territories.
The term local education agency means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State to either provide administrative control or direction of, or perform a service function for public schools serving individuals ages 0 ? 21 in a state, city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision including a combination of school districts or counties recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public schools. An LEA may provide, or employ professional who provide, services to children included in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), such services may include, but are not limited to, such medical services as physical, occupational, and speech therapy.