COMPREHENSIVE CENTER The CCs provide assistance to low-performing schools and districts to help close achievement gaps and meet goals of NCLB. The Centers provide technical assistance to states to benefit school districts and schools, especially those in need of improvement. Includes 15 regional centers and 5 content centers.
REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL LABORATORY The REL Program consists of a network of ten laboratories that serve the educational needs of a designated region by providing access to high quality scientifically valid education research through applied research and development projects, studies, and other related technical assistance activities.
EQUITY ASSISTANCE CENTER The EACs provide assistance in the areas of race, gender, and national origin equity to public school districts to promote equal educational opportunities. The Mission of the EACs is to assist schools and school districts in meeting performance standards while ensuring equal opportunity for all students.
This project seeks to build bridges to literacy beginning with pre-kindergarten to elementary and continuing to secondary levels, while concurrently improving the special education workforce through support for national board certification in Exceptional Needs. Specifically, this project aims to provide that: (a) every 4-year-old child in WV have access to a quality pre-K program by 2012-2013; (b) the Response to Intervention (RTI) process with its tiers of increasingly intensive interventions will be established in all elementary schools by 2009; (c) every high school student will be sufficiently prepared in reading skills so that he or she will not be required to take a remedial reading class upon entry into postsecondary education; and (d) teachers seeking national board certification will be financially supported in the application process, provided substitutes as they prepare necessary documentation, and paid salary supplements per year upon certification.
