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 and recent assistance activity log summaries.

Year 5 Managment Plan

Activity Log July-December 2008

Activity Log January-June 2009

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

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

• - making progress toward rigorous college- and career-ready standards and high–quality assessments
• - establishing pre-K-to-college and career data systems that track progress and foster continuous improvement
• - making improvements in teacher effectiveness
• - providing intensive support and effective interventions for the lowest-performing schools.