Four Labs Flip

The U.S. Department of Education has annouced that four of the ten regional educational laboratories have been awarded to new organizations. The RELs constitute the largest investment by the federal government into rural education research.

The new lab contract holders are:

The CNA Corporation replaces Edvantia—formerly AEL (Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia).

Education Development Center, Inc replaces Laboratory at Brown (LAB) (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands).

Edvance Research, Inc replaces Southwest Education Development Laboratory (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas).

The Pennsylvania State University replaces Laboratory for Student Success (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC).

Labs successfully defending their contracts are:

Learning Point Associates serving Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning serving Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming.

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory serving Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning serving American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawaii, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau).

University of North Carolina at Greensboro serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

WestEd serving Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.

The Regional Educational Laboratory program is located in the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences.