Action Alert: Senate votes today on math and science education programs
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ANS believes that sustaining and ensuring the future realization of the benefits of nuclear science and technology requires a substantial, reliably available workforce of highly capable people. Such a work force must include individuals both soundly educated in nuclear academic disciplines and rigorously trained.
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NSTA Legislative Alert Today, June 25, the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee is expected to vote on funding for FY 2004 federal education programs, including the Department of Education Math and Science Partnership Program (Title II, Part B, of No Child Left Behind). Members of the Senate Appropriations panel need to hear from their constituents if we want to see an increase in funding for this program. PLEASE take a moment to call your Senator (see list below) and urge him or her to increase funding for the Math and Science Partnership Program at the U.S. Department of Education to $200 million for FY 2004. Last week the House Education Appropriations Subcommittee voted to fund these partnership programs at $150 million for FY 2004 (the program received just over $100 million in FY 2003). We need to generate support for increased funding on the Senate side because there is a chance that Senate appropriators will provide less funding for these dedicated science and math education programs. Please take a minute to call your Senator, and also forward this message to your colleagues and other stakeholders in K-12 science and math education, and urge them to contact their Senators as well. Thank you. Jodi Peterson Director, Legislative Affairs National Science Teachers Association |
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Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) (202) 224-3954 Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) (202) 224-5054 Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) (202) 224-2752 Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) (202) 224-2315 Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) (202) 224-3324 Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) (202) 224-3254 Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) (202) 224-6121 Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) (202) 224-5922 |
Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) (202) 224-3934 Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) (202) 224-5653 Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.) (202) 224-5824 Patty Murray (D-Wash.) (202) 224-2621 Harry Reid (D-Nev.) (202) 224-3542 Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) (202) 224-4254 Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) (202) 224-3004 |
