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Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers

This program provides technical assistance through regional centers to States and localities. The legislative authority for the program was renewed in 2002; funding began in 2005. The new program focuses on building State capacity to help school districts and schools meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • Evaluations and customer service surveys provided useful but incomplete information about the expired program's performance. These surveys were not of sufficient scope and quality to support specific program improvements but did indicate that Centers succeeded in establishing a good customer base and offering services to school districts with high rates of poverty.
  • The Department of Education is measuring the quality, relevance, and usefulness of the products and services provided by the reauthorized program as part of a new evaluation implemented in the fall of 2006. Data will be available by the end of July, 2008.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Establishing long-term performance goals and targets for the new Comprehensive Centers.
  • Collecting data on whether the Centers provide technical assistance that is high quality, relevant, and useful.
  • Implementing the new efficiency measure and continuing work to establish and implement at least one additional efficiency measure.

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