US Administration announces New Centers to Raise Bar for Students, Advance Educational Opportunity

These new centres will basically focus on empowering multilingual learners, fostering early school success, supporting fiscal, strengthening the educator workforce, and resource equity.

Study in US: A few days ago, the U.S. Department of Education announced the setting up of two technical assistance centres. A grant of $46 million was announced and the centres will be established through the Comprehensive Centers program. The main objective is to support the local and state educational agencies (LEAs).

These new centres will focus on promoting early school success, strengthening the educator workforce, accelerating academic recovery, supporting English and multilingual learners, and advancing resource equity in schools.

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona commented, “Our state and local educational agencies are on the frontlines of making sure our nation’s students have well-funded, quality education—and the Comprehensive Center Network has long provided critical technical assistance that helps districts and schools raise the bar for student success. I’m proud that the grants announced today will establish new, dedicated centers that focus on the Department’s key priorities: promoting early school success; strengthening and diversifying the educator workforce and addressing critical educator shortages; supporting English learners and multilingualism, and achieving resource equity in schools. These centres demonstrate what we know to be true: when we work together across district, local, state, and federal levels, we keep raising the bar higher for all students.”  

US New Technical Centers: More Details

These centres will offer a national network of support for districts, states and schools to increase performance, and promote student achievement in the schools selected under the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act for improvement. The program will also help address the emerging challenges of K -12 schools and provide education leaders with evidence and tools to address these issues.

There are a total of 19 centers that form a Comprehensive Center Network including four Content Centers, 14 Regional Centers, and one National Center.

It will help LEAs and states improve the students' outcomes and educational opportunities.

"The four newly established Content Centers will coordinate and align services with the National Center, Regional Centers, and other federally-funded providers," reads the official notification.

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