This program awards discretionary grants to establish comprehensive technical assistance centers to help low-performing schools and districts close achievement gaps and meet the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Section 203 of Title II of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 (TA Act) authorizes the Department to establish not fewer than 20 comprehensive technical assistance centers to provide technical assistance to States to benefit school districts and schools, especially those in need of improvement.
For additional information on the Comprehensive Centers Program (CCP), please visit the CCP web site.
The Alaska Comprehensive Center (ACC) serves the state of Alaska.
The Appalachia Region Comprehensive Center (ARCC) serves the states of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The California Comprehensive Center serves the state of California.
The Florida and Islands Region Comprehensive Center serves the state of Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
The Great Lakes East Regional Comprehensive Center (GLECC) serves the states of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
The Great Lakes West Regional Comprehensive Center (GLWCC) serves the states of Illinois and Wisconsin.
The Mid-Atlantic Region Comprehensive Center (MACC) serves the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
The Mid-Continent Region Comprehensive Center (MC3) serves the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
The New England Region Comprehensive Center (NECC) serves the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
The New York Comprehensive Center serves the state of New York.
The North Central Region Comprehensive Center serves the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
The Northwest Region Comprehensive Center (NWRCC) serves the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
The Pacific Region Comprehensive Center (PC) serves the state of Hawaii, and American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
The Southeast Region Comprehensive Center serves the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
The Texas Comprehensive Center serves the state of Texas.
The West/Southwest Region Comprehensive Center serves the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
The Assessment and Accountability Content Center is housed at WestEd in San Francisco, California.
The National High School Center is housed at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC.
The Innovation and Improvement Content Center is housed at the Academic Development Institute in Lincoln, Illinois.
The Instruction Content Center is housed at the RMC Research Corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The Teacher Quality Content Center is housed at Learning Points Associates (LPA) in Naperville, Illinois.
Last Modified: 05/16/2008
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