The Center is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Healthy Students within the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. It is operated by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with Center for School Mental Health; Child Trends; Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning; EMT Associates; Futures without Violence; Sanametrix; Macrosys; and Vision Training Associates.

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