Founded in 1895, the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI) is a non-governmental, voluntary organization that accredits 8,500 public and private schools and districts. One of six regional accrediting organizations, NCA CASI accredits schools and districts in 19 states, the Navajo Nation, and the Department of Defense Dependents' Schools worldwide. For over 100 years, NCA CASI's focus has been to advance the quality of education.
NCA CASI accredits a range of schools from pre-kindergarten through post-secondary, including: early childhood, elementary, middle, secondary, adult/vocational, college preparatory, special purpose, unit (K-12), and non-degree granting post-secondary schools.
Through accreditation and related services, NCA CASI continuously improves the quality of education and challenges education entities to prepare each and every learner for success.
NCA CASI is an accreditation division of AdvancED.
Founded in 1895, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI) is a non-profit, voluntary, non-governmental association, and one of six regional accrediting associations in the United States. SACS CASI serves 11 Southern states - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia as well as Latin America and other geographical areas. SACS CASI accredits over 13,000 Pre-Kindergarten, K-12, and vocational schools.
SACS CASI, in the business of accrediting public and private schools for over 100 years, holds its primary mission as the improvement of education by recognizing and encouraging institutional quality through accreditation.
SACS CASI's Next Generation of Accreditation has provided schools with high standards and objective peer review, while offering the flexibility of choice in school improvement processes, for the ultimate benefit of students.
SACS CASI is an accreditation division of AdvancED.
The National Study of School Evaluation, now folded into AdvancED's Innovation Division, was a non-profit educational research and development organization founded in 1933 by the six regional school accreditation commissions in the United States.
NSSE worked with more than 30,000 schools - public and private, and kindergarten through grade 12 across the country and abroad. Through its resources, tools, and professional development, NSSE supported school evaluation and the development of school improvement plans and system-wide improvement plans for more than 70 years.
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