An effort to determine and describe the status of the shared services boards of the State of New York is described. By means of a 5-sheet questionnaire, information was gained regarding the status of the shared services boards, what they are doing, and how they were developed. This information is analyzed in the document. A sixth sheet was added to the original questionnaire to gather information relative to shared services teachers. Discussion includes general observations and conclusions, description of boards of cooperative educational services; educational programs under direct control of shared services boards; duties of the shared teacher; and also the role problems, operation, and activities of boards of cooperative educational services. The appendix contains the complete questionnaire utilized to gather information for this analysis. (SW)