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Appendix III

Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers

The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education funds the comprehensive assistance centers to support schools as they engage in comprehensive school change efforts to continuously improve teaching, learning, and student achievement; and to help schools improve the academic performance of all students, especially those who have traditionally been underserved by the education system. Each comprehensive assistance center provides high quality technical assistance and services to states, districts, and schools to facilitate the success of educational reform and school improvement initiatives.

Each assistance center serves as the single point of contact for requests for Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) services and programs; links educators to an established network of national, regional, and local service providers through a coordinated effort allowing convenient "one-stop shopping." Each center works to empower school personnel and to improve teaching and learning for all children; based on effective practices and the latest research. Priorities are to assist school wide programs, to help local education agencies that have the highest percentages of children in poverty, and to help all children achieve high standards.

[Note: Some web sites listed below may have moved since this publication was produced. A page of current links to Comprehensive Center web sites is maintained elsewhere on the ED web site.]

Region I: Vivian Guilfoy, Director Education Development Center, Inc 55 Chapel Street Newton, MA 02158-1060 Phone: (617)969-7100, ext. 2310 Fax: (617) 332-4318 Toll-free: (800)332-0226 e-mail: compcenter@edc.org url: http://www.edc.org/NECAC/ States served: CT; MA; ME; NH; RI; VT Region II: LaMar P. Miller, Executive Director New York Technical Assistance Center New York University 82 Washington Place New York, NY 10003-6680 Phone: (212) 998-511 Fax: (212) 995-4199/4041 Toll-free: (800) 4NYU-224 Toll-free restrictions: NY residents only url: http://www.nyu.edu/education/ metrocenter/ytac/nytac.html State served: New York Region III: Dr. Charlene Rivera, Director George Washington University 1730 North Lynn Street, Suite 401 Arlington, VA 22209 Phone: (703)528-3588 FAX: (703) 528-5973 Toll-free: (800)925-3223 e-mail: r3cc@ceee.gwu.edu url: http://ceee.gwu.edu States served: DC; DE; MD; NJ; OH; PA Region IV Pamela K. Buckley Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc. P.O. Box 1348 Charleston, WV 25325-1348 Phone: (304)347-0441 FAX: (304) 347-0489 Toll-free: (800)624-9120 url: http://www.ael.org/cac States served: KY; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV Region V Dr. Hai Tran, Director Southeast Comprehensive Assistance Center 3330 North Causeway Boulevard, Suite 430 Metaire, LA 70002-3573 Phone: (504) 838-6861 FAX: (504) 831-5242 E-mail: htran@sedl.org States served: AL; AR; GA; LA; MS Region VI: Minerva Coyne, Director University of Wisconsin 1025 West Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608)263-4326 Fax: (608) 263-3733 e-mail: mcoyne@macc.wisc.edu Gopher: gopher://wiscinfo.wisc.edu:70/ 11/.info-source/.ccvi/ url: http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ccvi/ States served: IA; MI; MN; ND; SD; WI Region VII: John E. Steffens, Director University of Oklahoma 555 Constitution Street, Suite 128 Norman, OK 73037-0005 Phone: (405) 325-1711 Fax: (405) 325-1824 E-mail: steffens@uoknor.edu url: http://tel.occe.uoknor.edu/comp/comp.html States served: IL; IN; KS; MO; NE; OK

Region VIII: Maria Robledo Montecel, Executive Director Albert Cortez, Site Director Intercultural Development Research Association 5835 Callaghan Road, Suite 350 San Antonio, TX 78228-1190 Phone: (210) 684-8180 Fax: (210) 684-5389 E-mail: acortez@irda.org State served: Texas Region IX Paul E. Martinez, Director New Mexico Highlands University 121 Tijeras, NE, Suite 2100 Albuquerque, NM 87102 Phone: (505) 242-7447 Fax: (505) 242-7558 url: http://www.cesdp.nmhu.edu/swcc/ States served: AZ; CO; NM; NV; UT Region X Ethel Simon-McWilliams, Executive Director Carlos Sundermann, Center Director Northwest Regional Assistance Center Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory 101 SW Main Street, Suite 500 Portland, OR 97204-3297 Phone: (503)275-9479 Fax: (503) 275-9625 Toll free: (800)547-6339 e-mail: nwrac@nwrel.org url: http://www.nwrac.org States served: ID; MT; WA; WY Region XI: Beverly P. Farr, Director Far West Laboratory for Educational Research 730 Harrison Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone: (415)565-3009 Fax: (415) 565-3012/2024 Toll-Free: (800)645-3276 e-mail: bfarr@wested.org url: http://www.wested.org State served: Northern California Region XII: Henry Mothner, Director Los Angeles County Office of Education 9300 Imperial Highway Downey, CA 90242-2890 Phone: (310)922-6343 Fax: (310) 940-1798 e-mail: mothner_henry@lacoe.edu url: http://sccac.lacoe.edu State served: Southern California Region XIII: Bill Buell, Program Director South East Regional Resource Center 210 Ferry Way, Suite 200 Juneau, AK 99801 Phone: (907)586-6806 Fax: (907) 463-3811 e-mail: AKRAC@PTIalaska.net url: http://www.akrac.k12.ak.us State served: AK Region XIV: Trudy Hensley, Director Educational Testing Service 1979 Lakeside Parkway Suite 400 Tucker, GA 30084 Phone: (770) 723-7443 Fax: (770) 723-7436 E-mail: thensley@ets.org States/Territories Served: FL, PR, and VI Region XV: Hilda Heine, Project Director Pacific Region Educational Laboratory 828 Fort Street Mall, Suite 500 Honolulu. HI 96813 Fax: (808) 533-7599 E-mail: heineh@prel.hawaii.edu State/territories served: Hawaii; American Samoa; Federated States of Micronesia; Guam; Republic of the Marshall Islands; Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; Republic of Palau

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