The Comprehensive Centers program supports the establishment Comprehensive Centers (CCs) to provide capacity-building services to State educational agencies (SEAs), regional educational agencies (REAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools that improve educational opportunities and outcomes, close achievement gaps, and improve the quality of instruction for all students, and particularly for groups of students with the greatest need, including students from low-income families and students attending schools implementing comprehensive support and improvement or targeted or additional targeted support and improvement activities under section 1111(d) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA).
Each Comprehensive Center must develop a 5-year plan for carrying out authorized activities. The plan of each center is developed to address the educational challenges facing students, practitioners, and education system leaders, as well as priorities established by the Department and the States. Each center has an advisory board, with representation from SEAs, LEAs, institutions of higher education, educators, administrators, policymakers, researchers, and business representatives, that advises the center on: (1) allocation of resources, (2) strategies for monitoring and addressing the region's educational needs (or the Nation's needs in the case of national and content centers), (3) maintaining a high standard of quality in the performance of its activities, and (4) carrying out the center's activities in a manner that promotes progress toward improving student academic achievement.
The Comprehensive Center Network
By statute, the Department is required to establish 20 Centers, with at least one center in each of the 10 geographic regions served by the Department's Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs).
These Centers comprise the Comprehensive Center Network (CCNetwork), consisting of a National Comprehensive Center (National Center), 14 Regional Comprehensive Centers (Regional Centers), and 4 Content Centers working together to support SEAs, REAs, Tribal education agencies (TEAs), LEAs, and schools to address areas of national need and advance several key focus areas, including to assist States and districts in academic achievement and excellence, to offer all students a comprehensive and rigorous education, to eliminate the educator shortage, to provide every student with a pathway to multilingualism, and to provide schools with adequate and equitable funding.
The 2019-2024 cohort of Comprehensive Centers, which received initial awards in 2019, included 19 Regional Centers and 1 National Center. An additional content center, the National Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities, funded in response to 2016 appropriations language and a new authority in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as reauthorized by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), focuses on students at risk of not attaining full literacy skills due to a disability.
Types of Services
Centers develop annual service plans for carrying out authorized activities that address State, regional, and national needs.
Regional Centers
Regional Centers provide high-quality intensive capacity-building services to State and local clients and recipients to assist them in selecting, implementing, and sustaining evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that support improved educator and student outcomes. Each Regional Center acts as the primary line of support to build capacity of the recipients being served by the Comprehensive Center to:
- Carry out approved Consolidated State Plans under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESEA);
- Implement, scale up, and sustain evidence-based programs, practices, or interventions that focus on key initiatives that lead to LEAs and schools improving student outcomes;
- Address the unique educational obstacles faced by underserved populations;
- Improve implementation of ESEA programs including collecting and reporting program data and addressing corrective actions or results from audit findings and ESEA program monitoring; and
- Work with the National Center and Content Centers to assist clients in selecting, implementing, and sustaining evidence-based programs, policies, practices, and interventions to make their work available to as many REAs, LEAs, and schools in need of support as possible.
National Center
The National Center provides high-quality, high-impact technical assistance and capacity-building services to the Nation that are designed to improve educational opportunities, educator practice, and student outcomes. National Center services must assist SEAs, REAs, TEAs, LEAs, and Regional Center clients and recipients to:
- Implement approved ESEA Consolidated State Plans, with preference given to implementing and scaling evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that directly benefit entities that have high percentages or numbers of students from low-income families;
- Implement and scale up evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that lead to the increased capacity of SEAs and LEAs to address the unique educational challenges and improve outcomes of schools implementing comprehensive support and improvement activities or targeted or additional targeted support and improvement activities as referenced in title I, part A of the ESEA (ESEA sec. 1111(d)) and their student);
- Implement State accountability and assessment systems;
- Implement and scale up evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that improve instruction and outcomes in core academic subjects, including math and literacy instruction;
- Address the unique educational obstacles faced by rural and Tribal students; and
- Address other emerging education topics of national importance that are not being met by another federally funded technical assistance provider.
The National Center additionally coordinates the work of the CCNetwork to effectively use program resources to support evidence use and the implementation of evidence-based practices to close opportunity gaps and improve educational outcomes, particularly accelerating academic achievement in math and literacy for all students, and particularly for groups of students with the greatest need. The National Center coordinates and collaborates with the Regional Centers and Content Centers to assess educational needs, coordinate common areas of support, including with other federal providers, communicate about the work of the CCNetwork, and help clients navigate available support.
Content Centers
The Content Centers provide high-quality, useful, and relevant targeted and universal capacity-building services in a designated content area of expertise to SEA, REA, TEA, and LEA clients designed to improve educational opportunities, educator practice, and student outcomes. Content Centers build the capacity of practitioners, education system leaders, public schools, LEAs, and SEAs to use evidence in a designated content area to:
- Use evidence in State or local policy or programs;
- Improved program implementation to achieve desired educational outcomes; and
- Address high-leverage problems and provide access to urgently needed services to build Centers' capacity to support SEAs and local clients.
Content Centers coordinate and align targeted and universal capacity-building services with the National Center, Regional Centers, and other federally funded providers to assess potential client needs, avoid duplication of services, and widely disseminate products or tools to ensure the use of services by as many SEA, REA, TEA, and LEA recipients as possible.
Content Centers include:
- The Center on English Learners and Multilingualism
- The Center for Early School Success
- The Center on Fiscal Equity
- The Center on Strengthening and Supporting the Educator Workforce
For information about Comprehensive Center resources, projects, and support, visit https://compcenternetwork.org/.
Eligibility
Who May Apply: Research organizations, institutions, agencies, institutes of higher education, or partnerships among such entities, or individuals, with the demonstrated ability or capacity to carry out the activities described in this notice, including regional entities that carried out activities under the Educational Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 1994 (as such Act existed on the day before November 5, 2002) and title XIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (as such title existed on the day before January 8, 2002).
2024 - 2029 Comprehensive Centers
On May 13, 2024 the U.S. Department of Education (Department) published a Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) for new awards for the Comprehensive Center program, inviting organizations to apply for five-year grant awards to establish Comprehensive Centers that provide capacity-building services to State educational agencies (SEAs), regional educational agencies (REAs), including Tribal educational agencies (TEAs), and local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools that are designed to improve outcomes for all students.
ED invited applications for three types of Centers:
- A National Center to provide coordination and high-quality services in areas of national need and to support issues related to instruction, learning, and improvement at the national level;
- Regional Centers to provide intensive support to SEAs, REAs, TEAs, LEAs, and schools, and provide an entry point for these entities into the Comprehensive Center Network; and
- Content Centers to provide targeted and universal capacity-building support in four key areas: English Learners and Multilingualism; Early School Success; Fiscal Equity; and Strengthening and Supporting the Educator Workforce.
The deadline to submit a grant application under this competition was June 24, 2024.
Please find more information and resources about the competition, below.
Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards: Comprehensive Centers Program: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/13/2024-09876/applications-for-new-awards-comprehensive-centers-program
Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Selection Criteria: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/13/2024-09877/comprehensive-centers-program
Pre-Application Webinar for Prospective Applicants
The Department hosted a Pre-Application Webinar for Prospective Applicants on Thursday, May 23, 2024, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
During the webinar, the Department reviewed details from the Notice Inviting Applications, including the priorities, program requirements, application and eligibility requirements, and definitions. The Department also highlighted new aspects of the FY2024 Comprehensive Center program grant competition and outlined the steps required to complete the Grants.gov registration process and submit applications. In addition, responses to questions received during the webinar are provided below in the Questions and Answers for Prospective Applicants document.
Applicant Resources
Funding Opportunity Number: ED-GRANTS-051324-001
- Grants.gov
- Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs
- Department of Education Discretionary Grants Information
Additional information for applicants to the FY 2024 Comprehensive Centers grant competition can be found, below:
- Comprehensive Centers Program FY 2024 Grant Competition Applicant Resource
- Comprehensive Centers Program FY 2024 Grant Competition Content Centers Overview
For additional questions, contact: OESE.ComprehensiveCenters@ed.gov.
2021 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 the Department made a new 5-year grant award for the National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities under the authority provided in section 2244 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015. The 5-year grant award is a cooperative agreement for a comprehensive center designed to improve literacy skills for students at risk of not attaining full literacy skills due to a disability, including dyslexia, and ultimately better prepare these students to compete in a global economy. This grant is jointly administered by OESE and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). On March 12, 2021, the Department published a Notice of Proposed Priority, Requirement, and Definitions for this grant competition in the Federal Register for public comment. On July 13, the Department published a Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Performance Measures and a Notice Inviting Applications. The deadline for Transmittal of Applications was Wednesday, September 1, 2021.
Note: The Department reopened this competition for a limited period of time for eligible applicants in jurisdictions identified by FEMA under declarations DR-4611-LA and EM-3569-MS in which assistance to individuals or public assistance has been authorized. To determine if applicants were affected, the following Emergency Declarations were available at: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4611, https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4611/designated-areas, https://www.fema.gov/disaster/3569, and https://www.fema.gov/disaster/3569/designated-areas. Reopening this competition will allow affected applicants more time to prepare and to submit their applications. A notice reopening the competition for affected applicants was published in the Federal Register soon.
Notice Reopening the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Competition for Certain Eligible Applicants
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-19876
Notice Inviting Applications:
Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Performance Measures:
Webinars for Interested Applicants:
The Department provided resources, including a recorded webinar, for interested applicants. Access these resources, below:
- Resources for Fiscal Year 2021 Grant Competitions
- General Application Webinar
- Assistance Listing Number 84.283D - National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities: Competition Webinar
2019 - 2024 Comprehensive Centers
The Notice Inviting Applications for the 2019-2024 Comprehensive Centers was published on April 4, 2019. Applications were due by May 24, 2019. Twenty 5-year grant awards were made by the end of FY 2019. The grant awards are made as cooperative agreements to operate one of 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers and one National Comprehensive Center.
Notice Inviting Applications:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/04/2019-06582/applications-for-new-awards-comprehensive-centers-program
Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Performance Measures:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/04/2019-06583/final-priorities-requirements-definitions-and-performance-measures-comprehensive-centers-program
Webinars for Interested Applicants:
The Department conducted webinars for prospective applicants on April 11, 2019, from 3:00 - 4:00 PM and April 17, 2019, from 1:30 -3:30 PM Eastern Time. Access resources associated with the webinars, including responses to questions received during the webinars, below:
- Webinar slide deck for prospective applicants: FY19 CC APPLICANT WEBINAR
- April 11, 2019 Webinar Recording
- April 17, 2019 Webinar Recording
- Questions and responses: Q AND A FOR PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS
For more information about the Comprehensive Centers Program click here. For information on the work of Comprehensive Centers, visit https://compcenternetwork.org/.
Comprehensive Centers (2024 - 2029)
The Department is pleased to announce the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Comprehensive Centers Program grantees. The 2024-2029 Comprehensive Centers include one National Comprehensive Center, 14 Regional Centers, and 4 Content Centers. For detailed information on each grantee’s proposed project and funding, please click the link below to access the Project Application and Abstract for each Center.
2024-2029 Comprehensive Centers Project Proposals
National Comprehensive Center
National Comprehensive Center
Westat, Inc.
Allison Crean Davis, Co-Director
Jill Lammert, Co-Director
Phone: (240) 314-2418
Regional Comprehensive Centers
Region 1 (Northeast): Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont
American Institutes for Research
Ellen Cushing, Director
Phone: (202) 403-5524
Region 2 (Islands): Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Family Health International (FHI 360)
Risa Sackman, Co-Director
Karen Maldonado, Co-Director
Phone: (919) 544-7040
Region 3 (Mid-Atlantic): Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
ICF Incorporated, L.L.C.,
Kerry Hoffman, Co-Executive Director
Amy Lamitie, Co-Executive Director
Phone: (301) 407-6500
Region 4 (Appalachia): Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
Westat, Inc.
Kimberly Hambrick, Project Director
Dr. Bradford Keller, Co-Deputy Director
Laura Taylor, Co-Deputy Director
Phone: (304) 206-6819
Region 5 (Southeast): North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Priscilla Maynor, Co-Director
George Hancock, Co-Director
Phone: (336) 315-7435
Region 6 (Gulf): Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
RMC Research Corporation
Robin Jarvis, Director
Phone: (813) 915-0010
Region 7 (Midwest): Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin
American Institutes for Research
Aaron Butler, Co-Director
Betheny Lyke, Co-Director
Phone: (312) 288-7612
Region 8 (Central): Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming
McREL International
Joe Simpson, Director
Katie Allen, Co-Deputy Director
Rich Resendez, Co-Deputy Director
Phone: (307) 286-9653
Region 9 (Southwest): Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
Westat, Inc.
Kristin Nafziger, Director
Phone: (512) 893-4503
Region 10 (West): Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Jenny Scala, Co-Project Director,
Alicia Espinoza, Co-Project Director
Phone: (617) 201-8280
Region 11 (Northwest): Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana
Education Northwest
Jennifer Esswein, Co-Director
Cortney Rowland, Co-Director
Phone: (503) 275-9636
Region 12 (Pacific East): American Samoa, Hawaii, Republic of the Marshall Islands
Child Trends, Incorporated
Dr. Kapono Ciotti, Co-Director
Ben Cronkright, Co-Director
Phone: (240) 223-9203
Region 13 (Pacific West): Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Palau
McREL International
Sinton Soalablai, Co-Director
Susan Shebby, Co-Director
Phone: (808) 650-7906
Region 14: Bureau of Indian Education
WestEd
Robert Salley, Project Director
Mario Molina, Deputy Director
Phone: (415) 565-3000
Content Centers
Center on English Learners and Multilingualism
Loyola Marymount University
Magaly Lavadenz, Co-Director
Sheila J. Briggs, Co-Director
Phone: (310) 338-2924
Center for Early School Success
AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University,
Tunette Powell, Co-Director
Lisa Gordon, Co-Director
Phone: (480) 965-7117
Center on Fiscal Equity
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Beth Howard-Brown, Co-Director
James Colyott, Co-Director
Phone: (803) 936-0752
Center on Strengthening and Supporting the Educator Workforce
Research Triangle Institute
Fredrica Nash, Co-Director
Robin Wisniewski, Co-Director
Phone: (919) 423-0611
For more information about the work of the Comprehensive Center Network, visit: https://compcenternetwork.org/
National Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities
Boston University
Lana Edwards Santoro, Ph.D., Director
Hank Fien, Ph.D., Founding Director
Click here for more information on the National Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities.
Click here for information about the 2019-2024 Comprehensive Centers.
Legislation
Comprehensive Centers Program is a discretionary grant program authorized under Title II, Sec. 203, of the Educational Technical Assistance Act (ETAA) of 2002.
Access Title II of the Educational Technical Assistance Act
The Educational Technical Assistance Act (ETAA) of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9601) authorizes support for not less than 20 grants to local entities, or consortia of such entities, with demonstrated expertise in providing capacity-building services in reading, mathematics, science, and technology, especially to low-performing schools and districts, including the administration and implementation of programs authorized under the ESEA. Under section 203(a)(2) of the ETAA, the Department is required to establish at least one Center in each of the 10 geographic regions served by the Department's Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) authorized under section 941(h) of the Educational Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 1994. The proposed funding for Regional Centers established under the ETAA must take into consideration the school-age population, proportion of economically disadvantaged students, increased cost burdens of service delivery in rural areas, and number of schools identified for improvement under ESEA section 1111(d). Accordingly, the regions for the proposed Regional Centers take into account total SEAs, LEAs, REAs, SEAs, and LEAs eligible for the Small, Rural School Achievement Program and the Rural Low-Income School Program, schools, and the associated RELs.
Regulations
- The Education Department General Administrative Regulations in 34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, 84, 86, 97, 98, and 99.
- The Office of Management and Budget Guidelines to Agencies on Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement) in 2 CFR part 180, as adopted and amended as regulations of the Department in 2 CFR part 3485.
- The Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards in 2 CFR part 200, as adopted and amended as regulations of the Department in 2 CFR part 3474.
- The regulations in 34 CFR part 299.
- Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Selection Criteria published on May 13, 2024 (89 FR 41498)
- Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Performance Measures published on April 4, 2019.
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 apply to IHEs only.
| Fiscal Year (FY) | Appropriation | Number of New Awards | Range of New Awards | Number of Continuation Awards | Range of Continuation Awards |
| FY 2024 | $50,000,000 | 19 | $1,000,000 to $6,000,000 | 1 | $1,500,000 |
| FY 2023 | $55,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 21 | $1,000,000 to $6,472,657* |
| FY 2022 | $54,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 21 | $1,000,000 to $6,472,657* |
| FY 2021 | $52,000,000 | 1 | $1,475,000* | 20 | $1,000,000 to $6,429,926* |
| FY 2020 | $52,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 21 | $1,000,000 to $6,472,657 |
| FY 2019 | $52,000,000 | 20 | $1,000,000 to $6,471,484 | 1 | $1,499,507 |
| FY 2018 | $50,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 22 | |
| FY 2017 | $50,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 22 | |
| FY 2016 | $51,445,000 | 1 | $1,449,831 | 22 | |
| FY 2015 | $48,445,000 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
2024
FY 2024 Appropriation: $50,000,000
Number of New Awards: 19
- 14 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 4 Content Centers
- Center on English Learners and Multilingualism
- Center for Early School Success
- Center on Fiscal Equity
- Center on Strengthening and Supporting the Educator Workforce
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
Number of Continuation Awards: 1
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
2023
FY 2023 Appropriation: $55,000,000
Number of Continuation Awards: 21
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
2022
FY 2022 Appropriation: $54,000,000
Number of Continuation Awards: 21
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
2021
FY 2021 Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 1
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
Number of Continuation Awards: 20
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
2020
FY 2020 Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 21
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
- 1 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
2019
Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 20
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
- Number of Continuation Awards: 1
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
FY 2019 New Awards
The total amount of funds available for the CC program for FY 2019 was $52 million. Of that amount, approximately $45 million was used to fund Regional Centers and $5 million was used to fund the National Comprehensive Center. FY 2019 funds supported awards for the first budget period of the project, which is the first 12 months of the project period.
Range of FY 2019 Awards: For Regional Comprehensive Centers: $1,000,000 to $6,472,657.
Note: The Department is not bound by any planned award estimates
| Region | Award |
| Region 01 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Region 02 | $2,360,643.00 |
| Region 03 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Region 04 | $2,557,246.00 |
| Region 05 | $2,444,035.00 |
| Region 06 | $3,215,377.00 |
| Region 07 | $3,378,769.00 |
| Region 08 | $3,212,089.00 |
| Region 09 | $1,722,122.00 |
| Region 10 | $1,302,938.00 |
| Region 11 | $1,243,525.00 |
| Region 12 | $1,963,421.00 |
| Region 13 | $1,647,431.00 |
| Region 14 | $5,413,470.00 |
| Region 15 | $6,472,657.00 |
| Region 16 | $3,316,771.00 |
| Region 17 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Region 18 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Region 19 | $1,000,000.00 |
| National Center | $5,000,000.00 |
* The FY2019 funding included $400,000 to support the Bureau of Indian Education
2018
Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 23
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
- Average Continuation Award:
- $2,700,008 for Regional Comprehensive Centers*
- $1,428,571 for Content Centers*
- $1,499,890 for National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
- FLICC will provide technical assistance to the Puerto Rico Department of Education to provide capacity-building services and develop a system of support for local education agencies. WCC will provide technical assistance to the Bureau of Indian Education build capacity in the collection and use of data, and organizational effectiveness.
- *These averages include supplemental funding.
- The Comprehensive Centers Program provided supplemental funding to the following centers: Florida and the Islands Comprehensive Center (FLICC), West Comprehensive Center (WCC).
2017
Appropriation: $50,000,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 23
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,516,956 for Regional Centers*
- $1,482,854 for Content Centers*
- $1,499,700 for National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education provided supplemental funding to the center on Great Teachers and Leaders.
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services provided supplemental funding to the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.
The Comprehensive Centers program provided supplemental funding to the centers of Building State Capacity and Productivity (BSCP), West Comprehensive Center (WCC), Pacific Region Comprehensive Center (PRCC), and North Central Comprehensive Center.
BSCP will create and operate a web portal for the Comprehensive Center network. WCC will support the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) by providing direct technical assistance and coordinating technical assistance, where appropriate, from national Content Centers. PRCC will support the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshall Islands, and American Samoa in a variety of areas, including formative assessments, teacher evaluation systems, and language proficiency, and NCCC will develop state capacity to support English language learners in North Dakota and to continue on-going supports for English language learners in Nebraska and South Dakota.
*These averages include supplemental funding.
2016
Appropriation: $51,445,000
Number of New Awards: 1
Number of Continuation Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,640,927 for Regional Comprehensive Centers*
- $2,082,779 for Content Centers*
- $1,449,831 for National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
The Office of Indian Education provided supplemental funding to the following centers: North Central, Northwest, South Central, West, and Standards & Assessments Implementation.
The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education provided supplemental funding to the centers on Great Teachers and Leaders and College and Career Readiness & Success.
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services provided supplemental funding to the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.
The Comprehensive Centers program provided supplemental funding to the centers of Building State Capacity and Productivity (BSCP) and Standards & Assessments Implementation (CSAI).
BSCP will provide technical assistance to SEAS to increase their capacity to meet the requirements of fiscal data reporting under the ESEA, as amended by the ESSA. CSAI will assist the Bureau of Indian Education's Office of Assessment and Accountability in its efforts to collect, organize, and report Federally-required data in the 23 States in which there are BIE-funded schools and to do so using a methodology based on each State's accountability system.
In 2016, the National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities received a 5-year grant under authority provided in section 2244 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015.
These averages include supplemental funding.
2015
Appropriation: $48,445,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,574,768 for Regional Centers
- $1,480,120 for Content Centers
2014
Appropriation: $48,445,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,574,768 for Regional Centers
- $1,480,120 for Content Centers
The Indian Education National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the following centers: North Central, Northwest, South Central, West, and Standards and Assessments Implementation.
The School Improvement Grants National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the Center on School Turnaround.
The Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination program and the Career and Technical Education National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.
The Preschool Development Grant National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes.
2013
Appropriation: $48,445,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,574,768 for Regional Comprehensive Centers
- $1,480,120 for Content Centers
2012
Appropriation: $ 51,113,213
Number of New Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
Number of Continuation Awards: 0
Average New Award: $2,370,237
Range of New Awards:
- $825,000 to $4,895,053 for Regional Centers
- $1,428,571 to $2,478,571 for Content Centers
Three Regional Center awards (Northwest, South Central, and West) include $331,000 each from the Indian Education National Activities Program.
Great Teachers and Leaders received $750,000 from the Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination program and $300,000 from the Career and Technical Education National Activities Program.
Comprehensive Centers Program Evaluation
Section 204 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 (ETAA) requires that the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), a component of the Department's Institute of Education Sciences, provide for an ongoing independent evaluation of the Comprehensive Centers to determine the extent to which each center meets its objectives.
2019-2024:
The study's report is expected in 2025 and will be announced on http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/. For more information, see here.
2012-2019:
The final evaluation report for the 2012-2019 cohort of the Comprehensive Center program, published in 2019, can be found here.
2005-2011:
The final evaluation report for the 2005-2011 cohort of Comprehensive Centers, published in 2011, can be found here.
Comprehensive Center Network
Find more information about Comprehensive Center services and learn about resources from the Comprehensive Center Network (CCNetwork) on the CCNetwork website.
Comprehensive Center Impact Stories
The CCNetwork's Impact Stories illustrate the results of Comprehensive Centers' work with states by celebrating ingenuity and collaboration and highlighting moments that sparked change in education. Written by National Comprehensive Center and Regional Comprehensive Center staff, these stories detail key strategies, important lessons, and promising solutions emerging from the CCNetwork's work with SEAs and LEAs across the country.
Read the CCNetwork's Impact Stories. The Impact Stories can be filtered by topic, Comprehensive Center, or state/jurisdiction to gain new ideas and cheer for your area's great work.
Other TA Resources
Find links to other technical assistance (TA) resources and programs that partner with the Comprehensive Centers:
The Comprehensive Centers program supports the establishment Comprehensive Centers (CCs) to provide capacity-building services to State educational agencies (SEAs), regional educational agencies (REAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools that improve educational opportunities and outcomes, close achievement gaps, and improve the quality of instruction for all students, and particularly for groups of students with the greatest need, including students from low-income families and students attending schools implementing comprehensive support and improvement or targeted or additional targeted support and improvement activities under section 1111(d) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA).
Each Comprehensive Center must develop a 5-year plan for carrying out authorized activities. The plan of each center is developed to address the educational challenges facing students, practitioners, and education system leaders, as well as priorities established by the Department and the States. Each center has an advisory board, with representation from SEAs, LEAs, institutions of higher education, educators, administrators, policymakers, researchers, and business representatives, that advises the center on: (1) allocation of resources, (2) strategies for monitoring and addressing the region's educational needs (or the Nation's needs in the case of national and content centers), (3) maintaining a high standard of quality in the performance of its activities, and (4) carrying out the center's activities in a manner that promotes progress toward improving student academic achievement.
The Comprehensive Center Network
By statute, the Department is required to establish 20 Centers, with at least one center in each of the 10 geographic regions served by the Department's Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs).
These Centers comprise the Comprehensive Center Network (CCNetwork), consisting of a National Comprehensive Center (National Center), 14 Regional Comprehensive Centers (Regional Centers), and 4 Content Centers working together to support SEAs, REAs, Tribal education agencies (TEAs), LEAs, and schools to address areas of national need and advance several key focus areas, including to assist States and districts in academic achievement and excellence, to offer all students a comprehensive and rigorous education, to eliminate the educator shortage, to provide every student with a pathway to multilingualism, and to provide schools with adequate and equitable funding.
The 2019-2024 cohort of Comprehensive Centers, which received initial awards in 2019, included 19 Regional Centers and 1 National Center. An additional content center, the National Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities, funded in response to 2016 appropriations language and a new authority in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as reauthorized by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), focuses on students at risk of not attaining full literacy skills due to a disability.
Types of Services
Centers develop annual service plans for carrying out authorized activities that address State, regional, and national needs.
Regional Centers
Regional Centers provide high-quality intensive capacity-building services to State and local clients and recipients to assist them in selecting, implementing, and sustaining evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that support improved educator and student outcomes. Each Regional Center acts as the primary line of support to build capacity of the recipients being served by the Comprehensive Center to:
- Carry out approved Consolidated State Plans under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESEA);
- Implement, scale up, and sustain evidence-based programs, practices, or interventions that focus on key initiatives that lead to LEAs and schools improving student outcomes;
- Address the unique educational obstacles faced by underserved populations;
- Improve implementation of ESEA programs including collecting and reporting program data and addressing corrective actions or results from audit findings and ESEA program monitoring; and
- Work with the National Center and Content Centers to assist clients in selecting, implementing, and sustaining evidence-based programs, policies, practices, and interventions to make their work available to as many REAs, LEAs, and schools in need of support as possible.
National Center
The National Center provides high-quality, high-impact technical assistance and capacity-building services to the Nation that are designed to improve educational opportunities, educator practice, and student outcomes. National Center services must assist SEAs, REAs, TEAs, LEAs, and Regional Center clients and recipients to:
- Implement approved ESEA Consolidated State Plans, with preference given to implementing and scaling evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that directly benefit entities that have high percentages or numbers of students from low-income families;
- Implement and scale up evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that lead to the increased capacity of SEAs and LEAs to address the unique educational challenges and improve outcomes of schools implementing comprehensive support and improvement activities or targeted or additional targeted support and improvement activities as referenced in title I, part A of the ESEA (ESEA sec. 1111(d)) and their student);
- Implement State accountability and assessment systems;
- Implement and scale up evidence-based programs, practices, and interventions that improve instruction and outcomes in core academic subjects, including math and literacy instruction;
- Address the unique educational obstacles faced by rural and Tribal students; and
- Address other emerging education topics of national importance that are not being met by another federally funded technical assistance provider.
The National Center additionally coordinates the work of the CCNetwork to effectively use program resources to support evidence use and the implementation of evidence-based practices to close opportunity gaps and improve educational outcomes, particularly accelerating academic achievement in math and literacy for all students, and particularly for groups of students with the greatest need. The National Center coordinates and collaborates with the Regional Centers and Content Centers to assess educational needs, coordinate common areas of support, including with other federal providers, communicate about the work of the CCNetwork, and help clients navigate available support.
Content Centers
The Content Centers provide high-quality, useful, and relevant targeted and universal capacity-building services in a designated content area of expertise to SEA, REA, TEA, and LEA clients designed to improve educational opportunities, educator practice, and student outcomes. Content Centers build the capacity of practitioners, education system leaders, public schools, LEAs, and SEAs to use evidence in a designated content area to:
- Use evidence in State or local policy or programs;
- Improved program implementation to achieve desired educational outcomes; and
- Address high-leverage problems and provide access to urgently needed services to build Centers' capacity to support SEAs and local clients.
Content Centers coordinate and align targeted and universal capacity-building services with the National Center, Regional Centers, and other federally funded providers to assess potential client needs, avoid duplication of services, and widely disseminate products or tools to ensure the use of services by as many SEA, REA, TEA, and LEA recipients as possible.
Content Centers include:
- The Center on English Learners and Multilingualism
- The Center for Early School Success
- The Center on Fiscal Equity
- The Center on Strengthening and Supporting the Educator Workforce
For information about Comprehensive Center resources, projects, and support, visit https://compcenternetwork.org/.
Eligibility
Who May Apply: Research organizations, institutions, agencies, institutes of higher education, or partnerships among such entities, or individuals, with the demonstrated ability or capacity to carry out the activities described in this notice, including regional entities that carried out activities under the Educational Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 1994 (as such Act existed on the day before November 5, 2002) and title XIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (as such title existed on the day before January 8, 2002).
2024 - 2029 Comprehensive Centers
On May 13, 2024 the U.S. Department of Education (Department) published a Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) for new awards for the Comprehensive Center program, inviting organizations to apply for five-year grant awards to establish Comprehensive Centers that provide capacity-building services to State educational agencies (SEAs), regional educational agencies (REAs), including Tribal educational agencies (TEAs), and local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools that are designed to improve outcomes for all students.
ED invited applications for three types of Centers:
- A National Center to provide coordination and high-quality services in areas of national need and to support issues related to instruction, learning, and improvement at the national level;
- Regional Centers to provide intensive support to SEAs, REAs, TEAs, LEAs, and schools, and provide an entry point for these entities into the Comprehensive Center Network; and
- Content Centers to provide targeted and universal capacity-building support in four key areas: English Learners and Multilingualism; Early School Success; Fiscal Equity; and Strengthening and Supporting the Educator Workforce.
The deadline to submit a grant application under this competition was June 24, 2024.
Please find more information and resources about the competition, below.
Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards: Comprehensive Centers Program: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/13/2024-09876/applications-for-new-awards-comprehensive-centers-program
Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Selection Criteria: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/13/2024-09877/comprehensive-centers-program
Pre-Application Webinar for Prospective Applicants
The Department hosted a Pre-Application Webinar for Prospective Applicants on Thursday, May 23, 2024, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
During the webinar, the Department reviewed details from the Notice Inviting Applications, including the priorities, program requirements, application and eligibility requirements, and definitions. The Department also highlighted new aspects of the FY2024 Comprehensive Center program grant competition and outlined the steps required to complete the Grants.gov registration process and submit applications. In addition, responses to questions received during the webinar are provided below in the Questions and Answers for Prospective Applicants document.
Applicant Resources
Funding Opportunity Number: ED-GRANTS-051324-001
- Grants.gov
- Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs
- Department of Education Discretionary Grants Information
Additional information for applicants to the FY 2024 Comprehensive Centers grant competition can be found, below:
- Comprehensive Centers Program FY 2024 Grant Competition Applicant Resource
- Comprehensive Centers Program FY 2024 Grant Competition Content Centers Overview
For additional questions, contact: OESE.ComprehensiveCenters@ed.gov.
2021 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 the Department made a new 5-year grant award for the National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities under the authority provided in section 2244 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015. The 5-year grant award is a cooperative agreement for a comprehensive center designed to improve literacy skills for students at risk of not attaining full literacy skills due to a disability, including dyslexia, and ultimately better prepare these students to compete in a global economy. This grant is jointly administered by OESE and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). On March 12, 2021, the Department published a Notice of Proposed Priority, Requirement, and Definitions for this grant competition in the Federal Register for public comment. On July 13, the Department published a Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Performance Measures and a Notice Inviting Applications. The deadline for Transmittal of Applications was Wednesday, September 1, 2021.
Note: The Department reopened this competition for a limited period of time for eligible applicants in jurisdictions identified by FEMA under declarations DR-4611-LA and EM-3569-MS in which assistance to individuals or public assistance has been authorized. To determine if applicants were affected, the following Emergency Declarations were available at: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4611, https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4611/designated-areas, https://www.fema.gov/disaster/3569, and https://www.fema.gov/disaster/3569/designated-areas. Reopening this competition will allow affected applicants more time to prepare and to submit their applications. A notice reopening the competition for affected applicants was published in the Federal Register soon.
Notice Reopening the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Competition for Certain Eligible Applicants
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-19876
Notice Inviting Applications:
Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Performance Measures:
Webinars for Interested Applicants:
The Department provided resources, including a recorded webinar, for interested applicants. Access these resources, below:
- Resources for Fiscal Year 2021 Grant Competitions
- General Application Webinar
- Assistance Listing Number 84.283D - National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities: Competition Webinar
2019 - 2024 Comprehensive Centers
The Notice Inviting Applications for the 2019-2024 Comprehensive Centers was published on April 4, 2019. Applications were due by May 24, 2019. Twenty 5-year grant awards were made by the end of FY 2019. The grant awards are made as cooperative agreements to operate one of 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers and one National Comprehensive Center.
Notice Inviting Applications:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/04/2019-06582/applications-for-new-awards-comprehensive-centers-program
Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Performance Measures:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/04/2019-06583/final-priorities-requirements-definitions-and-performance-measures-comprehensive-centers-program
Webinars for Interested Applicants:
The Department conducted webinars for prospective applicants on April 11, 2019, from 3:00 - 4:00 PM and April 17, 2019, from 1:30 -3:30 PM Eastern Time. Access resources associated with the webinars, including responses to questions received during the webinars, below:
- Webinar slide deck for prospective applicants: FY19 CC APPLICANT WEBINAR
- April 11, 2019 Webinar Recording
- April 17, 2019 Webinar Recording
- Questions and responses: Q AND A FOR PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS
For more information about the Comprehensive Centers Program click here. For information on the work of Comprehensive Centers, visit https://compcenternetwork.org/.
Comprehensive Centers (2024 - 2029)
The Department is pleased to announce the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Comprehensive Centers Program grantees. The 2024-2029 Comprehensive Centers include one National Comprehensive Center, 14 Regional Centers, and 4 Content Centers. For detailed information on each grantee’s proposed project and funding, please click the link below to access the Project Application and Abstract for each Center.
2024-2029 Comprehensive Centers Project Proposals
National Comprehensive Center
National Comprehensive Center
Westat, Inc.
Allison Crean Davis, Co-Director
Jill Lammert, Co-Director
Phone: (240) 314-2418
Regional Comprehensive Centers
Region 1 (Northeast): Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont
American Institutes for Research
Ellen Cushing, Director
Phone: (202) 403-5524
Region 2 (Islands): Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Family Health International (FHI 360)
Risa Sackman, Co-Director
Karen Maldonado, Co-Director
Phone: (919) 544-7040
Region 3 (Mid-Atlantic): Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
ICF Incorporated, L.L.C.,
Kerry Hoffman, Co-Executive Director
Amy Lamitie, Co-Executive Director
Phone: (301) 407-6500
Region 4 (Appalachia): Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
Westat, Inc.
Kimberly Hambrick, Project Director
Dr. Bradford Keller, Co-Deputy Director
Laura Taylor, Co-Deputy Director
Phone: (304) 206-6819
Region 5 (Southeast): North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Priscilla Maynor, Co-Director
George Hancock, Co-Director
Phone: (336) 315-7435
Region 6 (Gulf): Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
RMC Research Corporation
Robin Jarvis, Director
Phone: (813) 915-0010
Region 7 (Midwest): Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin
American Institutes for Research
Aaron Butler, Co-Director
Betheny Lyke, Co-Director
Phone: (312) 288-7612
Region 8 (Central): Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming
McREL International
Joe Simpson, Director
Katie Allen, Co-Deputy Director
Rich Resendez, Co-Deputy Director
Phone: (307) 286-9653
Region 9 (Southwest): Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
Westat, Inc.
Kristin Nafziger, Director
Phone: (512) 893-4503
Region 10 (West): Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Jenny Scala, Co-Project Director,
Alicia Espinoza, Co-Project Director
Phone: (617) 201-8280
Region 11 (Northwest): Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana
Education Northwest
Jennifer Esswein, Co-Director
Cortney Rowland, Co-Director
Phone: (503) 275-9636
Region 12 (Pacific East): American Samoa, Hawaii, Republic of the Marshall Islands
Child Trends, Incorporated
Dr. Kapono Ciotti, Co-Director
Ben Cronkright, Co-Director
Phone: (240) 223-9203
Region 13 (Pacific West): Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Palau
McREL International
Sinton Soalablai, Co-Director
Susan Shebby, Co-Director
Phone: (808) 650-7906
Region 14: Bureau of Indian Education
WestEd
Robert Salley, Project Director
Mario Molina, Deputy Director
Phone: (415) 565-3000
Content Centers
Center on English Learners and Multilingualism
Loyola Marymount University
Magaly Lavadenz, Co-Director
Sheila J. Briggs, Co-Director
Phone: (310) 338-2924
Center for Early School Success
AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University,
Tunette Powell, Co-Director
Lisa Gordon, Co-Director
Phone: (480) 965-7117
Center on Fiscal Equity
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Beth Howard-Brown, Co-Director
James Colyott, Co-Director
Phone: (803) 936-0752
Center on Strengthening and Supporting the Educator Workforce
Research Triangle Institute
Fredrica Nash, Co-Director
Robin Wisniewski, Co-Director
Phone: (919) 423-0611
For more information about the work of the Comprehensive Center Network, visit: https://compcenternetwork.org/
National Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities
Boston University
Lana Edwards Santoro, Ph.D., Director
Hank Fien, Ph.D., Founding Director
Click here for more information on the National Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities.
Click here for information about the 2019-2024 Comprehensive Centers.
Legislation
Comprehensive Centers Program is a discretionary grant program authorized under Title II, Sec. 203, of the Educational Technical Assistance Act (ETAA) of 2002.
Access Title II of the Educational Technical Assistance Act
The Educational Technical Assistance Act (ETAA) of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9601) authorizes support for not less than 20 grants to local entities, or consortia of such entities, with demonstrated expertise in providing capacity-building services in reading, mathematics, science, and technology, especially to low-performing schools and districts, including the administration and implementation of programs authorized under the ESEA. Under section 203(a)(2) of the ETAA, the Department is required to establish at least one Center in each of the 10 geographic regions served by the Department's Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) authorized under section 941(h) of the Educational Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 1994. The proposed funding for Regional Centers established under the ETAA must take into consideration the school-age population, proportion of economically disadvantaged students, increased cost burdens of service delivery in rural areas, and number of schools identified for improvement under ESEA section 1111(d). Accordingly, the regions for the proposed Regional Centers take into account total SEAs, LEAs, REAs, SEAs, and LEAs eligible for the Small, Rural School Achievement Program and the Rural Low-Income School Program, schools, and the associated RELs.
Regulations
- The Education Department General Administrative Regulations in 34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, 84, 86, 97, 98, and 99.
- The Office of Management and Budget Guidelines to Agencies on Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement) in 2 CFR part 180, as adopted and amended as regulations of the Department in 2 CFR part 3485.
- The Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards in 2 CFR part 200, as adopted and amended as regulations of the Department in 2 CFR part 3474.
- The regulations in 34 CFR part 299.
- Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Selection Criteria published on May 13, 2024 (89 FR 41498)
- Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Performance Measures published on April 4, 2019.
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 apply to IHEs only.
| Fiscal Year (FY) | Appropriation | Number of New Awards | Range of New Awards | Number of Continuation Awards | Range of Continuation Awards |
| FY 2024 | $50,000,000 | 19 | $1,000,000 to $6,000,000 | 1 | $1,500,000 |
| FY 2023 | $55,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 21 | $1,000,000 to $6,472,657* |
| FY 2022 | $54,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 21 | $1,000,000 to $6,472,657* |
| FY 2021 | $52,000,000 | 1 | $1,475,000* | 20 | $1,000,000 to $6,429,926* |
| FY 2020 | $52,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 21 | $1,000,000 to $6,472,657 |
| FY 2019 | $52,000,000 | 20 | $1,000,000 to $6,471,484 | 1 | $1,499,507 |
| FY 2018 | $50,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 22 | |
| FY 2017 | $50,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 22 | |
| FY 2016 | $51,445,000 | 1 | $1,449,831 | 22 | |
| FY 2015 | $48,445,000 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
2024
FY 2024 Appropriation: $50,000,000
Number of New Awards: 19
- 14 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 4 Content Centers
- Center on English Learners and Multilingualism
- Center for Early School Success
- Center on Fiscal Equity
- Center on Strengthening and Supporting the Educator Workforce
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
Number of Continuation Awards: 1
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
2023
FY 2023 Appropriation: $55,000,000
Number of Continuation Awards: 21
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
2022
FY 2022 Appropriation: $54,000,000
Number of Continuation Awards: 21
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
2021
FY 2021 Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 1
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
Number of Continuation Awards: 20
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
2020
FY 2020 Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 21
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
- 1 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
2019
Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 20
- 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center
- Number of Continuation Awards: 1
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
FY 2019 New Awards
The total amount of funds available for the CC program for FY 2019 was $52 million. Of that amount, approximately $45 million was used to fund Regional Centers and $5 million was used to fund the National Comprehensive Center. FY 2019 funds supported awards for the first budget period of the project, which is the first 12 months of the project period.
Range of FY 2019 Awards: For Regional Comprehensive Centers: $1,000,000 to $6,472,657.
Note: The Department is not bound by any planned award estimates
| Region | Award |
| Region 01 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Region 02 | $2,360,643.00 |
| Region 03 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Region 04 | $2,557,246.00 |
| Region 05 | $2,444,035.00 |
| Region 06 | $3,215,377.00 |
| Region 07 | $3,378,769.00 |
| Region 08 | $3,212,089.00 |
| Region 09 | $1,722,122.00 |
| Region 10 | $1,302,938.00 |
| Region 11 | $1,243,525.00 |
| Region 12 | $1,963,421.00 |
| Region 13 | $1,647,431.00 |
| Region 14 | $5,413,470.00 |
| Region 15 | $6,472,657.00 |
| Region 16 | $3,316,771.00 |
| Region 17 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Region 18 | $1,000,000.00 |
| Region 19 | $1,000,000.00 |
| National Center | $5,000,000.00 |
* The FY2019 funding included $400,000 to support the Bureau of Indian Education
2018
Appropriation: $52,000,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 23
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
- Average Continuation Award:
- $2,700,008 for Regional Comprehensive Centers*
- $1,428,571 for Content Centers*
- $1,499,890 for National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
- FLICC will provide technical assistance to the Puerto Rico Department of Education to provide capacity-building services and develop a system of support for local education agencies. WCC will provide technical assistance to the Bureau of Indian Education build capacity in the collection and use of data, and organizational effectiveness.
- *These averages include supplemental funding.
- The Comprehensive Centers Program provided supplemental funding to the following centers: Florida and the Islands Comprehensive Center (FLICC), West Comprehensive Center (WCC).
2017
Appropriation: $50,000,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 23
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
- 1 National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,516,956 for Regional Centers*
- $1,482,854 for Content Centers*
- $1,499,700 for National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education provided supplemental funding to the center on Great Teachers and Leaders.
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services provided supplemental funding to the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.
The Comprehensive Centers program provided supplemental funding to the centers of Building State Capacity and Productivity (BSCP), West Comprehensive Center (WCC), Pacific Region Comprehensive Center (PRCC), and North Central Comprehensive Center.
BSCP will create and operate a web portal for the Comprehensive Center network. WCC will support the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) by providing direct technical assistance and coordinating technical assistance, where appropriate, from national Content Centers. PRCC will support the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshall Islands, and American Samoa in a variety of areas, including formative assessments, teacher evaluation systems, and language proficiency, and NCCC will develop state capacity to support English language learners in North Dakota and to continue on-going supports for English language learners in Nebraska and South Dakota.
*These averages include supplemental funding.
2016
Appropriation: $51,445,000
Number of New Awards: 1
Number of Continuation Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
- 1 National Center on Improving Literacy
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,640,927 for Regional Comprehensive Centers*
- $2,082,779 for Content Centers*
- $1,449,831 for National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy
The Office of Indian Education provided supplemental funding to the following centers: North Central, Northwest, South Central, West, and Standards & Assessments Implementation.
The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education provided supplemental funding to the centers on Great Teachers and Leaders and College and Career Readiness & Success.
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services provided supplemental funding to the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.
The Comprehensive Centers program provided supplemental funding to the centers of Building State Capacity and Productivity (BSCP) and Standards & Assessments Implementation (CSAI).
BSCP will provide technical assistance to SEAS to increase their capacity to meet the requirements of fiscal data reporting under the ESEA, as amended by the ESSA. CSAI will assist the Bureau of Indian Education's Office of Assessment and Accountability in its efforts to collect, organize, and report Federally-required data in the 23 States in which there are BIE-funded schools and to do so using a methodology based on each State's accountability system.
In 2016, the National Comprehensive Center on Improving Literacy for Students with Disabilities received a 5-year grant under authority provided in section 2244 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015.
These averages include supplemental funding.
2015
Appropriation: $48,445,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,574,768 for Regional Centers
- $1,480,120 for Content Centers
2014
Appropriation: $48,445,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,574,768 for Regional Centers
- $1,480,120 for Content Centers
The Indian Education National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the following centers: North Central, Northwest, South Central, West, and Standards and Assessments Implementation.
The School Improvement Grants National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the Center on School Turnaround.
The Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination program and the Career and Technical Education National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.
The Preschool Development Grant National Activities program provided supplemental funding to the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes.
2013
Appropriation: $48,445,000
Number of New Awards: 0
Number of Continuation Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
Average Continuation Award:
- $2,574,768 for Regional Comprehensive Centers
- $1,480,120 for Content Centers
2012
Appropriation: $ 51,113,213
Number of New Awards: 22
- 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers
- 7 Content Centers
Number of Continuation Awards: 0
Average New Award: $2,370,237
Range of New Awards:
- $825,000 to $4,895,053 for Regional Centers
- $1,428,571 to $2,478,571 for Content Centers
Three Regional Center awards (Northwest, South Central, and West) include $331,000 each from the Indian Education National Activities Program.
Great Teachers and Leaders received $750,000 from the Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination program and $300,000 from the Career and Technical Education National Activities Program.
Comprehensive Centers Program Evaluation
Section 204 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 (ETAA) requires that the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), a component of the Department's Institute of Education Sciences, provide for an ongoing independent evaluation of the Comprehensive Centers to determine the extent to which each center meets its objectives.
2019-2024:
The study's report is expected in 2025 and will be announced on http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/. For more information, see here.
2012-2019:
The final evaluation report for the 2012-2019 cohort of the Comprehensive Center program, published in 2019, can be found here.
2005-2011:
The final evaluation report for the 2005-2011 cohort of Comprehensive Centers, published in 2011, can be found here.
Comprehensive Center Network
Find more information about Comprehensive Center services and learn about resources from the Comprehensive Center Network (CCNetwork) on the CCNetwork website.
Comprehensive Center Impact Stories
The CCNetwork's Impact Stories illustrate the results of Comprehensive Centers' work with states by celebrating ingenuity and collaboration and highlighting moments that sparked change in education. Written by National Comprehensive Center and Regional Comprehensive Center staff, these stories detail key strategies, important lessons, and promising solutions emerging from the CCNetwork's work with SEAs and LEAs across the country.
Read the CCNetwork's Impact Stories. The Impact Stories can be filtered by topic, Comprehensive Center, or state/jurisdiction to gain new ideas and cheer for your area's great work.
Other TA Resources
Find links to other technical assistance (TA) resources and programs that partner with the Comprehensive Centers:
RACs advise the Secretary on educational needs of the 10 regions served by the Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs).