Comprehensive Center Network

The U.S. Department of Education’s comprehensive center program funds 16 regional centers and 5 content centers to help low-performing schools and districts close achievement gaps and meet the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. While content centers focus almost entirely on specific content areas—analyzing research and developing useful products and tools for regional centers and other clients—the regional centers are the on-ground providers to states. The regional centers provide frontline assistance to states to help them implement federal school improvement programs and help increase state capacity to help districts and schools meet their student achievement goals. The centers are responsible for developing strong relationships and partnerships within their regional communities. The content centers are responsible for providing—in their specialty content areas—in-depth knowledge, expertise, and analyses to regional centers and the states they serve. Content centers disseminate knowledge on scientifically based research on effective practice and research-based products, and provide experts that regional centers can use in delivering technical assistance to states.

Content Centers

The Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center is housed at WestEd in San Francisco, California.
http://www.aacompcenter.org/cs/aacc/print/htdocs/aacc/home.htm

The National High School Center is housed at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC.
http://www.betterhighschools.org/

The Center on Innovation and Improvement is housed at the Academic Development Institute in Lincoln, Illinois.
http://www.centerii.org/

The Center on Instruction is housed at the RMC Research Corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
http://www.centeroninstruction.org/

The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality is housed at Learning Points Associates (LPA) in Naperville, Illinois.
http://www.ncctq.org/

Regional Comprehensive Centers

The Alaska Comprehensive Center (ACC) serves the state of Alaska.
http://www.alaskacc.org/

The Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center (ARCC) serves the states of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
http://www.arcc.edvantia.org/

The California Comprehensive Center serves the state of California.
http://www.cacompcenter.org/cs/cacc/print/htdocs/cacc/home.htm

The Florida and Islands Comprehensive Center serves the state of Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
http://www.ets.org/flicc/

The Great Lakes East Comprehensive Center (GLECC) serves the states of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
http://www.learningpt.org/greatlakeseast/

The Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center (MACC) serves the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
http://www.macc.ceee.gwu.edu/

The Mid-Continent Comprehensive Center (MC3) serves the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
http://www.mc3edsupport.org/

The New England Comprehensive Center (NECC) serves the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
http://www.necomprehensivecenter.org/

The New York Comprehensive Center (NYCC) serves the state of New York.
http://www.nycomprehensivecenter.org/

The North Central Comprehensive Center (NCCC) serves the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
https://sites.google.com/site/ncccmcrel/

The Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center (NWRCC) serves the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
http://www.nwrel.org/nwrcc/

The Pacific 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.
http://www.pacificcompcenter.org/

The Southeast Comprehensive Center serves the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
http://secc.sedl.org/

The Texas Comprehensive Center serves the state of Texas.
http://txcc.sedl.org/

The Southwest Comprehensive Center serves the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
http://www.swcompcenter.org/cs/swcc/print/htdocs/swcc/home.htm