From 2014: VP Biden on Code.org
1,074As schools reopen this fall, we call on the US federal government to fund computer science courses in K-12. President Biden has supported computer science and Code.org since this speech in 2014. Support for computer science is bipartisan: the Obama and Trump administrations both supported CS. And the Biden White House has now signaled that CS will be a priority in its education plans. The next step is for the White House to ask Congress to fund CS.
Read more here: https://medium.com/@codeorg/calling-on-biden-and-congress-fund-computer-science-in-schools-46ea586f2284
Besides, given the growing cybersecurity threat, it is a matter of national security to educate our future workforce to defend the digital infrastructure we all depend on, and to educate every American about how to help prevent cyber attacks.
The majority of US schools still don’t offer basic computer science classes. Opportunity should be equal, but it’s not. Black students are almost half as likely to have the option to study CS in school than white students. We must fix this. To prepare more CS teachers, funding is required. Over 100,000 CS teachers have attended professional learning workshops and begun teaching computer science. Thanks to the passion of these teachers, change is possible. Ultimately this effort needs funding to succeed.
Good news: the U.S. Senate has for the first time agreed to authorize funding for computer science in new legislation (USICA), but this needs the full support of Congress. We call on the Biden administration to ask Congress to fund CS.
Meanwhile, thanks to our partners in the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, over two dozen states have taken action on their own, allocating millions of dollars from state budgets. We applaud this local action and call on other states to follow suit.
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