School Modernization

Rebuild America’s Schools Act

Infrastructure

Digital learning

Qualified Zone Academy Bonds (QZABs)

Let’s fix our schools

Students need 21st century tools for 21st century learning.

The average public school building in the United States is 44 years old.

The American Society of Civil Engineers gives the condition of America’s 100,000 public school buildings an overall grade of D+.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency attributes poor indoor air quality in more than 60,000 schools to insects and respiratory irritants.

Over 19,000 schools serving 11.6 million students do not have the minimum connectivity necessary for digital learning.

Restore Qualified Zone Academy Bonds (QZABs), which allow schools to finance renovations, repairs and investments in technology at below-market rates and without interest.

NEA urges Congress to include school modernization in any packaged effort to address infrastructure in the United States.

Bills in Congress

HR 2

A bill to help to our nation’s public schools as they seek to reopen this fall, create jobs in communities hard hit by the economic downturn, and help address structural inequities in the condition of our nation’s K-12 public education infrastructure

HR 3322

A bill to provide grants to improve energy efficiency and use renewable sources of energy in public schools.

S 1890

A bill to provide grants to improve energy efficiency and use renewable sources of energy in public schools.