Keeping the Promise:
What It Truly Takes To Leave No Child Behind

NEA believes that America's greatest legacy to future generations is the right to a free, quality public education. NEA has prepared Keeping the Promise: What It Truly Takes To Leave No Child Behind as a roadmap offered to policymakers to ensure that every child has access to a great public school.

Keeping the Promise 
( PDF, 11 pp)

• Help the States Invest in Education and Children's Well-Being
• Keep the Promised Investments
• Treat Students and Schools as More than Just a Test Score
• Permit No Backsliding on Teacher Quality
• Improve the Performance of Students with Disabilities
• Ensure Safe and Modern Learning Environments
• Guarantee All Preschoolers Access to High Quality Early Childhood Education
• Extend the Opportunity of Higher Education to All

Keeping the Promise to America's Preschoolers
( PDF, 14 pp)

• Early Childhood Education Recommendations
• Society's Obligation to Young Children's Healthy Development

Keeping the Promise to America's Schoolchildren
( PDF, 53 pp)

• Student Achievement for All
• A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom
• An IDEA Whose Time Has Come
• Ensuring All Students a Safe and Modern Learning Environment

Keeping the Promise of Opportunity Through Higher Education 
( PDF, 13 pp)

• Higher Education Recommendations
• Closing the Growing Access and Affordability Gap