America

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Americas Promise Alliance

• GROUNDED IN THE FIVE PROMISES
• Caring Adults
• Safe Places
• A Healthy Start
• An Effective Education
• Opportunities to Help Others

• Leadership of Colin and Alma Powell
• 400 national businesses and non-profit partners
  with affiliates in communities nationwide
• Network of 30,000 community leaders engaged
  through 50 state and 55 city Dropout Prevention
  Summits
• Policy advocates in 45 states working with First
  Focus, our bi-partisan policy affiliate

FOUNDING CHAIRS COLIN AND ALMA POWELL
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Our Most Ambitious Campaign
March 1, 2010 Gen. Colin and Mrs. Alma Powell
Launched the Grad Nation Campaign with President
Obama and Education Secretary Duncan
Dropping out is quitting on yourself. Its
quitting on your country, and its not an option
- not anymore. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
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Our Lowest Performing Schools
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Accountability - Milestone Indicators

• Health care access
• Pre-school enrollment
• Fourth grade reading scores
• Eighth grade math and science scores
• Promotion from ninth to tenth grade
• Youth service participation
• Out-of-school time participation
• Adoption of common core standards for college and
  career readiness
• High school graduation
• Minimum two-year post secondary education

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Let there be no doubt the future belongs to the
nation that best educates its citizens.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA