Region III Comprehensive Center (R3CC): 1994 - 2005

As one of 15 federally-funded regional comprehensive centers, the Region III Comprehensive Center (R3CC) supported educators at the state, district and school levels. In recent years, the major role of the R3CC was to support the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB; P.L. 107-110), the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Over the past ten years, R3CC provided information, consultation, professional development and facilitation services to help administrators, teachers and other educators implement NCLB by

• building a culture of achievement and accountability in underperforming schools that focuses on student achievement;
• helping SEAs to create single state accountability systems that make transparent districts' and schools' progress in educating all students to standards;
• working cooperatively with state, district, and school administrators, teachers, and pupil services personnel to support diverse populations of learners in all schools and work toward helping schools achieve Adequate Yearly Progress and close the achievement gap;
• supporting quality teaching and the improvement of instructional delivery through the provision of sustained professional development informed by scientifically-based research; and
• helping educators advance parental involvement by improving parents' access to student achievement data, increasing options for parents including supplemental education, and school choice provisions under NCLB.

The R3CC served a six-state region including Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia Public Schools since 1994. The Region III Comprehensive Center was led by CEEE in partnership with three other organizations: RMC Research Corporation, Research for Better Schools, and ESCORT (formerly the Eastern Stream Center on Resources and Training) at the State University of New York at Oneonta.