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Equity Assistance Centers (EAC's) The Equity Assistance Centers help district and school personnel create safe, positive, and bias-free educational environments for all students. These centers also focus on school districts that experience conflicts arising from efforts to desegregate and remove barriers to equal educational opportunities. Region I: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont Dr. Maria Pacheco, Director The Education Alliance New England Equity Assistance Center at Brown University (NEEAC) 4 Richmond Square, Suite 400 Providence, RI 02906 401-867-8948 http://neeac.alliance.brown.edu Region II: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands Dr. Velma Cobb, Director Equity Assistance Center Touro College, Lander Center for Education Research 43 W. 23rd Street, 8th Floor New York, NY 10010 212-463-0400, ext. 5386 http://www.touro.edu.egrad/eac Region III: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Ms. Susan Shaffer Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium 5272 River Road, Suite 340 Bethesda, MD 20816 301-657-7741 http://www.maec.org Region IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee Mr. Jerry Graniero Southeastern Equity Alliance, Inc. Southeastern Equity Center 1401 E. Broward Boulevard, Suite 304 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 954-765-3553 http://www.se-equity.org Region V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin Dr. Kathleen King Thorius Great Lakes Equity Center Indiana University 902 West New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-5167 480-510-1291 http://glec.education.iupui.edu/ Region VI: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas Dr. Bradley Scott South Central Collabrative for Equity Intercultural Development Research Association 5815 Callaghan Road, Suite 101 San Antonio, TX 78228-1102 210-444-1710 http://www.idria.org Region VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska Dr. Charles Rankin, Director Midwest Equity Assistance Center Kansas State University 1100 Bluemont Hall, Room 401 Manhattan, KS 66506 785-532-6408 http://www.meac.org Region VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming Mr. Percy Morehouse Metropolitan State College of Denver PO Box 173362, Campus Box 63 Denver, CO 80217-3362 303-556-4746 http://www.mscd.edu.eac . Region IX: Arizona, California, and Nevada Dr. Rose Owens-West WestEd 300 Lakeside Drive, 25th Floor Oakland, CA 94612-3540 510-302-4246 http://www.wested.org/eac Region X: Alaska, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Republic of Palau, and Washington Ms. Joyce Harris Education Northwest 101 SW Main Street, Suite 500 Portland, OR 97204 503-275-0664 http://www.educationnorthwest.org Publications: Copies of the following publications are available for states, school districts, and schools in Region IV at no charge, as long as our supply lasts. Managing Your School in an Age of Terrorism, War, & Civil Unrest.
A guide and preparedness check list for schools who have or “are working on” a comprehensive School Safety Plan. (In partnership with the National School Safety Center, West Lake Village, California) Check Points
An EQUITY self-review for schools and school districts School Safety Check-up 
Seven key actions for Safe and Effective Schools
Safe school planning is a collaborative process that creates a framework for school safety assessment and action. (In partnership with the National School Safety Center, West Lake Village, California) Unitary Status
A technical Assistance and Resource Manual for school district’s in Region IV pursuing unitary status. Action Plan
To ensure race neutral practice in regular and special education Other Resources: Department of Justice/Office of Civil Rights Announcement Letter of New Guidelines to Achieve Racial Divestiy http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201111.html Guidance on the Voluntary Use of Race to Achieve Diversity in Postsecondary Education http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/guidance-pse-201111.html Guidance on the Voluntary Use of Race to Achieve Diversity and Avoid Racial Isolation in Elementary and Secondary Schools http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/guidance-ese-201111.html The Leadership Conference: Civil Rights 101 http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/ U.S. Department of Education’s Training and Advisory Services: Equity Assistance Centers www2.ed.gov/programs/equitycenters/index.html U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html?src=mr Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute: U.S. Code Collection www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode20/usc_sec_20_00001681----000-.html U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs www.ncela.gwu.edu/ U.S. Department of Education’s Comprehensive Centers Program www.ed.gov/programs/newccp/awards.html The What Works Clearinghouse, a source of scientific evidence of what works in education www.whatworks.ed.gov/. Doing What Works, reports on the effectiveness of educational programs, products, practices, and policies. http://www2.ed.gov/nclb/methods/whatworks/edpicks.jhtml The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education www.nces.ed.gov The Civil Rights Project:UCLA www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu The West Regional Equity Network http://sirow.arizona.eduhttp://neeac.alliance.brown.eduhttp://www.touro.edu.egrad/eachttp://www.maec.orghttp://www.se-equity.orghttp://glec.education.iupui.eduhttp://www.idria.orghttp://www.meac.orghttp://www.mscd.edu.eachttp://www.wested.org/eachttp://www.educationnorthwest.orghttp://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201111.htmlhttp://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/guidance-pse-201111.htmlhttp://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/guidance-ese-201111.htmlhttp://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/http://www2.ed.gov/programs/equitycenters/index.htmlhttp://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html?src=mrhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode20/usc_sec_20_00001681----000-.htmlhttp://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.htmlhttp://www.ncela.gwu.edu/http://www.ed.gov/programs/newccp/awards.htmlhttp://www.whatworks.ed.gov/http://www2.ed.gov/nclb/methods/whatworks/edpicks.jhtmlhttp://www.nces.ed.gov/http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/http://sirow.arizona.edu/shapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2shapeimage_5_link_3shapeimage_5_link_4shapeimage_5_link_5shapeimage_5_link_6shapeimage_5_link_7shapeimage_5_link_8shapeimage_5_link_9shapeimage_5_link_10shapeimage_5_link_11shapeimage_5_link_12shapeimage_5_link_13shapeimage_5_link_14shapeimage_5_link_15shapeimage_5_link_16shapeimage_5_link_17shapeimage_5_link_18shapeimage_5_link_19shapeimage_5_link_20shapeimage_5_link_21shapeimage_5_link_22shapeimage_5_link_23shapeimage_5_link_24

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