The Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP) is one of four regional Equity Assistance Centers, funded by the United States Department of Education under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We work, as part of the TA & D Network with OSEP grant funded centers. (Grant S004D220003).
The MAP Center provides technical assistance and training, upon request, in the areas of race, sex, national origin, and religion to public school districts and other responsible governmental agencies to promote equitable educational opportunities and work in the areas of civil rights, equity, and school reform. The Center serves 13 State Educational Agencies, 7,025 Public School Districts, and 11,249,050 Public School Students.
Mission: Equitable, Responsive Education for All.
Core Activity Domains
To achieve our mission, we seek to:
Improve distribution of effective teachers and principals;
Improve school engagement, environment, and school safety, as well as family and community engagement in schools;
Increase and support data-based decision making related to use of research-based, culturally responsive curricula and instructional practices in classrooms, schools, and districts;
Build coalitions between higher education, PreK-12 systems, communities, and families;
Promote equity by addressing needs of historically underserved students, including students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds;
Address the disproportionate representation of minority students in special, gifted, and advanced placement (AP) programs as well as STEM education;
Support, develop, and disseminate effective approaches to school dropout prevention and reentry;
Support districts transitioning to unitary status in desegregation cases.
