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The U.S. Department of Education offers a multitude of
useful equity resources on its web site: www.ed.gov.
The department, through its Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, School
Support and Technology Programs also partners with Equity Assistance
Centers
such as the Programs for Educational Opportunity in Ann Arbor.
Equity
Assistance Centers assist school districts and education agencies with issues
related to educational equity in the areas of race, national origin, and gender
desegregation. The 10 equity assistance centers are
funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title IV of the 1964 Civil
Rights Act. They provide assistance in the areas of race, gender, and national
origin equity to public school districts to promote equal educational
opportunities. Contact
information for the Equity Assistance Centers also appears at http://www.ed.gov/about/contacts/gen/othersites/equity.html
The U.S. Office
for Civil Rights serves populations facing discrimination and supports
the advocates and institutions, which are promoting systemic solutions to civil
rights problems. The mission of the Office for Civil Rights is to ensure equal
access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation
through vigorous enforcement of civil rights. To file a civil rights complaint,
contact the OCR enforcement office serving your state by clicking here.
Regional Comprehensive Centers. Sixteen regional
cvomprehensive centers provide frontiline technical assistace to states within
their reigon to help them implement No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and other
related federal school improvement programs and to help increase state education
agency capacity to help districts and schools meet t heir student achievement
goals. Thegoal of Comprehensive Center programs is to help low-performing
schools and districts close the achievement gaps and meet the goals of the
NCLB Act.. Of the six states
in PEO''s region the , Illinois and Wisconsin SEAs should contact the Great
Lakes West Comprehensive Assistance Center at http://www.learningpt.org/greatlakeswest/,
the Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio SEAs should contact the
Women's Educational
Equity resources are another way the federal government promotes
educational equity for all Americans.
To find out more about these services, please click here.
Regional Educational
Research Laboratory Program is the U.S. Department of Education’s largest
research and development investment designed to help educators, policy makers,
and communities improve schools and help all students attain their full
potential. To learn more about
the “Lab Programs” and the
regional laboratory that serves your state, please go to http://www.ed.gov/prog_info/Labs/index.html
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