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Equity Centers

Region VIII Interwest Equity Center
Located in Denver Colorado, the Center provides training and technical assistance on issues related to equity in education to ensure that all children, regardless of race, gender, or national origin, have equal access to quality education and the opportunity to develop high academic standards in reading, math, language arts, and other core subject areas. The Region X Equity Assistance Center serves: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming

Region X Equity Assistance Center
The Region X Equity Assistance Center is located at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) in Portland, Oregon. The Center provides training and technical assistance on issues related to equity in education to ensure that all children, regardless of race, gender, or national origin, have equal access to quality education and the opportunity to develop high academic standards in reading, math, language arts, and other core subject areas. The Region X Equity Assistance Center serves: Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Republic of Palau, Washington.

School Reform

Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to create and operate a Comprehensive School Reform Quality (CSRQ) Center. The CSRQ Center provides technical assistance to support urban and rural educators and education decision makers in choosing the highest quality CSR model to meet locally defined needs.

What Works Clearinghouse
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is a project of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, established to provide educators, policymakers, and the public with a central and independent source of scientific evidence of what works in education.

The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
The purpose of The Center for Comprehensive School Reform is to assist schools and school districts contemplating or engaged in comprehensive school reform and improvement. They do this by providing them with reliable information about research-based strategies and assistance in using that information to make positive changes. They also provide specific information and support for the Comprehensive School Reform Program. There mission is to help schools organize, plan, implement, and sustain improvement.

Special Education

Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center
The Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center is part of a network of technical assistance agencies funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). The Center provides technical assistance to State Education Agencies and Part C Lead Agencies to assist and support them in systemic improvement policies, procedures and practices which will result in quality programs and services for children with disabilities and their families. The MPRRC serves: Arizona, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming.

Western Regional Resource Center
The Western Regional Resource Center is part of a network of technical assistance agencies funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). The Center provides technical assistance to State Education Agencies and Part C Lead Agencies to assist and support them in systemic improvement policies, procedures and practices which will result in quality programs and services for children with disabilities and their families. The WRRC serves: Alaska, American Samoa, California, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau, and Washington.

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