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Ausburn, Jerry Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This descriptive study of the twenty regional Education Service Centers in Texas is an exploratory analysis of programs and services that promote school improvement. Data collected from each service center website enabled the researcher to determine which programs and services are available to school districts and also allowed the researcher to…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Educational Change
COMSIS Corp., Wheaton, MD. – 1995
This report details and evaluates the third year of the Mid-Atlantic Multifunctional Resource Center, a program providing training and technical assistance to educators and parents of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in an area including Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Education Service Centers, English (Second Language), Inservice Teacher Education
Nelson, Terry T. – Perspectives: A Journal of Research and Opinion about Educational Service Agencies, 2003
Rural Georgia schools have unique needs arising from inequitable funding and high teacher and administrator turnover. Central Savannah River Area Regional Educational Service Agency, which serves 12 school districts, assists with teacher recruitment and preparation, federal regulations, school improvement planning and implementation, and…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Development
Marrow, Alvin J. – 1994
The Business Industry and Technical Assistance Center (BITAC) was established in 1986 at Hazard Community College, in Kentucky, to serve as an information and technical assistance center for small business. As the local area began to face layoffs in the coal mining industry, however, the center extended its services in four principal areas:…
Descriptors: Business Education, Community Colleges, Community Information Services, Dislocated Workers
Pardes, Joan – Perspectives: A Journal of Research and Opinion about Educational Service Agencies, 2003
The Southeast Regional Resource Center serves all of Alaska's 53 school districts, many of them rural. Its itinerant special education personnel deliver services on-site and train teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents to deliver services. Video exchanges, telephone conversations, and Internet communications are used to monitor student progress,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Distance Education, Education Service Centers, Elementary Secondary Education
Harlow, Terry A. – Perspectives: A Journal of Research and Opinion about Educational Service Agencies, 2003
Rural schools in west central Texas face declining fiscal resources and enrollments. Their main needs center around staffing and technology. Region 14 Education Service Center, which serves 43 school districts, delivers monthly on-site training and technical assistance to administrators and staff and works with school districts to offer more…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Distance Education, Education Service Centers, Educational Cooperation
COMSIS Corp., Wheaton, MD. – 1996
This report summarizes the accomplishments of the 3-and-a-half year implementation of the Mid-Atlantic Multifunctional Resource Center (MRC), a program that provided training and technical assistance to educators and parents of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Education Service Centers, English (Second Language), Inservice Teacher Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin.
Ten of the twenty Education Service Centers (ESC) that provide instructional and technical services to the local school districts in Texas were asked to participate in a project designed to demonstrate infusion and management techniques in career education. Activities were accomplished under the following objectives: (1) establish the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Development