Take Action: Tell Education Secretary Arne Duncan and the Obama administration to deliver on their pre-k promises

Tell Education Secretary Arne Duncan and the Obama administration to prioritize pre-k in 2010!

Secretary Duncan and the Obama administration have been vocal supporters of high-quality early education, In fact, Secretary Duncan frequently tells audiences that, "in education, we have to get out of the catch-up business...to me, it goes to early education."

Right now the administration is planning for major education reform in 2010 – a key opportunity to put the focus on high-quality pre-k programs.

Fill out the form below and tell Education Secretary Duncan to make pre-k a top funding priority!

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Right now, 70 percent of three and four year olds have no access to publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs. When you work with Congress next year to renew and revise our nation's major education law - the Elementary and Secondary Education Act - we hope you and the entire Obama administration make pre-k a top funding priority. Getting all kids ready to learn early is the first step to improving our schools.

In fact, high-quality pre-k must be viewed as an indispensable part of our education system. When early education programs are of high quality, they provide the kinds of positive results that families, communities and policy makers are seeking, like improving children's cognitive, social and emotional skills, increasing high school graduation rates and closing the achievement gap. And, in addition to these irrefutable benefits, high-quality early education yields a return of $7 for every dollar invested!

I thank you in advance for your support, and I look forward to all your efforts to, at last, get us out of the catch-up business in education.

Jan Richter
1625 K St. NW
11th Floor
Washington, DC 20006

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