In the governance of their education systems, several countries have adopted regulatory mechanisms at an intermediate level to ensure that what happens at the school level is coherent with national education priorities. In Quebec, School Boards are required to produce multiyear strategic plans, including specific objectives in terms of student success and in keeping with government orientations in this area. Based on a content analysis of 69 such plans produced between 2002 and 2007, we examine the extent to which these documents comply with legal requirements, how they take government orientations into account, and what was done to ensure the participation of the School Boards’ partners in drawing up the plans. the study is framed in the broad perspective of evaluating the impacts of educational policies on the practices of local actors, and illustrates the capacity of intermediate regulation units to develop ownership of a strategic planning framework and thereby act as intermediaries between the State and schools.