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Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

NWRCC

Welcome to the Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

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The NWRCC is part of a nationwide network of 16 regional technical assistance centers established by the U.S. Department of Education. The Comprehensive Centers were created to deliver high-quality technical assistance, information, and resources to State Education Agencies (SEAs). The primary focus of the regional Comprehensive Centers is to provide assistance that increases each state's capacity to meet the state provisions of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and to assist districts and schools in implementing the NCLB goals and programs.

At the Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center, we work closely with the state education departments of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Our mission is to help each state build its capacity to assist districts and schools in closing achievement gaps and meeting the goals of NCLB.

About NWRCC

The Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center (NWRCC) is part of the U.S. Department of Education's Comprehensive Centers Program. The NWRCC assists the State Education Agencies of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming by helping them adopt proven approaches to achieve the school improvement and student performance goals of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.

The work of the NWRCC includes three components:

  1. Technical assistance that focuses on direct assistance to each of the SEAs to build their capacity to implement the NCLB provisions applicable to states,
  2. Tasks and strategies designed to help each SEA build its capacity to help schools and districts in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups and meet the goals of NCLB, and
  3. Dissemination approaches to provide high-quality, relevant, and useful information to support states, districts and schools throughout the Northwest region in implementing the goals and provisions of NCLB.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the NWRCC is administered by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) in partnership with RMC Research Corporation, both located in Portland, OR.

Please feel free to contact us with questions or comments.