Math and Science Partnership Funding Restored!
Greetings STEM Ed Coalition Affiliates and Colleagues-
Good News!
This afternoon the Senate Appropriations Committee restored $51 million in funding for the Department of Education’s Math and Science Partnership, which had been earlier been cut from the program by the Labor, HHS, Education Subcommittee. The program would continue at the current funding level of $150 million under the bill approved today.
For the past 2 days the Coalition has worked very closely with Sen. Shelby to build support for an amendment that would restore the proposed cuts to the MSP program. Over the past day, dozens of organizations have voiced their support for that amendment and more than 1,000 people sent letters to Senators on this matter through the Coalition’s website. As it became clear that a majority of Senators from both sides of the aisle were opposed to cuts to the MSP program, the leadership of the Appropriations Committee decided to include the Shelby Amendment in the final “Manager’s” bill approved by the full Committee this afternoon.
Our Coalition extends its profound thanks to Sen. Richard Shelby and to all of the organizations that added their voice to this successfull effort to ensure EVERY state will continue to recieve federal support for STEM reform efforts. Below is the list of everyone group who lent their support to the amendment.
Cheers,
-Jodi and James
STEM Education Coalition
National Science Teachers Association
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
American Mathematical Society
American Society of Civil Engineers
ASME
American Chemical Society
Education Development Center, Inc.
IEEE-USA
Hands on Science Partnership
American Society of Agronomy
Crop Science Society of America
Soil Science Society of America
Campaign for Environmental Literacy
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Statistical Association
TechNet
School Science and Mathematics Association
Triangle Coalition
National Council for Advanced Manufacturing
Society of Women Engineers
Center for Innovation in Engineering & Science Education (CIESE) & Stevens Institute of Technology
ASHRAE
National Alliance of State Science and Mathematics Coalitions (NASSMC)
Texas STEM Center Coalition
American Society for Microbiology
National Society of Professional Surveyors
Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance
National Society of Professional Engineers
Stratford STEM Magnet High School
National Council of Structural Engineers Associations
Action Works
Engineers Without Borders-USA
EAST Initiative
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
Next Steps, powered by Earth Force (formerly the Association of Science Materials Centers)
LearnOnLine, Inc
ecoCAD Design Group, LLC
Tech House
National Girls Collaborative Project.
Technology Student Association
American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
The Optical Society
STEM Education Alliance at the College of William and Mary
Oregon State University
National Science Education Leadership Association
Association for Women in Mathematics
Project Exploration
CESA6 for the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Southwest Technology Center
STEM Fuse
NARST
Jodi Peterson
Chair, STEM Education Coalition
Assistant Executive Director, Legislative and Public Affairs
National Science Teachers Association
1840 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 312-9214 (office)
jpeterson@nsta.org
www.nsta.org
www.stemedcoalition.org
James Brown
Executive Director
STEM Education Coalition
700 North One Lafayette Centre
1120 20th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 400-2192
jfbrown@stemedcoalition.org
www.stemedcoalition.org
