Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

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 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 [NCLB]) and to assist districts and schools in implementing the NCLB goals and programs.

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 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.

You can view a copy of our current management plan.

Year 6 Management Plan

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

NWRCC is committed to increasing the capacity of SEAs to meet the core reform areas of:

• Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy
• Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction
• Recruiting, preparing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most
• Turning around the lowest-achieving schools