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Welcome to The CCCOE

The Contra Costa County Office of Education (CCCOE) is a service agency dedicated to ensuring quality education for all learners. The agency serves as a link between the California Department of Education and the 18 local school districts and Community College District in Contra Costa County.

Under the leadership of the elected superintendent of schools and a five-member elected board of education, the CCCOE is able to provide many types of services to students, school districts, and the community including:

• Directly educating more than 33,000 students a year in Career Technical classes, Court and Community Schools, Special Education for students with severe disabilities, and Adult Correctional Education
  
  
• Providing support in areas of technology, multi-media classroom enhancement tools, Beginning Teacher support, AVID, district and school accountability, Preschool Instructional Network, emergency and crisis planning and communications support, partnerships with business and the community, academic events and county Teacher of the Year
  
  
• Saving districts millions of dollars every year by providing essential, cost-effective programs and services that enable districts to direct more of their resources to classroom instruction
  
  
• Helping districts meet hundreds of state and federal reporting requirements on everything from class size averages to teacher salaries. The CCCOE provides AB1200 district budget oversight, monitors all teacher’s credentials in the county, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Williams and Valenzuela Settlement oversight and monitoring, and interdistrict dispute intervention

Mark Morello named County Teacher Of The Year

The Contra Costa County of Education's Teacher of the Year Awards dinner was held on the evening of Thursday, September 25th where Brentwood Union School District's music teacher of the year, Mark Morello, was named Contra Costa County's 2008 - 2009 Teacher of the Year. Mark teaches music at Bristow Middle School, Grades 6-8.

The Contra Costa Times has the following article (pdf) about the event.

CCTV will periodically broadcast the Awards Dinner. More information can be found at www.contracostatv.org.

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The new, printed 2008-2009 Contra Costa County Public Schools Directory is available. Order information is on the Public Schools
Directory page

The new, electronic 2008-2009 downloadable
pdf of the Contra Costa County Public Schools Directory is available on the Public Schools
Directory page

The English Learner Administrator Leadership Institute's training registration form (pdf) is available

County Committee on School District Organization

The 2008 VPSS materials are online

Read the California Department of Health's Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) informational documents

CPI's Crisis Prevention Training registration forms are available

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