As President Obama said, “We need more bills like this!” The STEM Education Coalition, along with several of its members, was invited to attend the presidential signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

The STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum joined the National Science Teachers Association, American Chemical Society, Afterschool Alliance, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Education Development Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery to host the another round of the Policy Forum’s continued education briefing series on informal education.

Today, the House will take up the conference report for Every Student Succeeds Act.

The STEM Education Coalition issued the following public statement of support for the bill:

This analysis walks sequentially through the Every Student Succeeds Act section-by- section highlighting the major STEM provisions.

Today, congressional education leaders completed a two-day conference process to resolve differences between House and Senate passed legislation to rewrite the 13 year-old No Child Left Behind Act. With a vote of 39 to 1, the bipartisan group of lawmakers approved a comprehensive agreement to revise the nation’s major K-12 education law, which addresses STEM education issues in several important ways.

A bi-partisan group of 19 US Senators joined together in support of keeping key STEM provisions from the Senate’s version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in the conferenced legislation.

The STEM Education Coalition joined others in the aerospace and aerospace education world through a joint letter supporting a request for additional time to develop a detailed response to substantial new federal education rules regarding the curricula for aviation technicians.

In response to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions beginning to review and prepare legislation to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, the STEM Education Coalition submitted a letter to Senator Michael Enzi and Senator Bob Casey regarding several important issues.

Today we are excited to announce the addition of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) to the STEM Education Coalition’s Leadership Council.

This October, Congress passed The STEM Education Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX21) and Committee Member Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-CT05). We would like to thank Chairman Smith for sitting down with the Coalition to discuss the legislation.

The STEM Education Coalition is delighted to announce the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has joined the Coalition’s Leadership Council!

The STEM Education Coalition issued a statement on a bipartisan letter coauthored by U.S. Representatives Richard Hanna (R-NY) and Joe Courtney (D-CT) and signed by 34 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, sent to House and Senate leaders supporting a Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provision that would provide dedicated funding to every state to boost STEM education activities.

The STEM Education Coalition joined Microsoft, Excelencia in Education, Hispanic Heritage Foundation, and the Washington DC Public Schools to discuss issues Latino students in STEM education face in the United States.

We are pleased to welcome FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) to the Coalition’s Leadership Council.

Watch the C-SPAN footage.

The STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum was proud to collaborate with the Afterschool Alliance, the Association of Science–Technology Centers, the Education Development Center, and the National Science Teachers Association to host the first of a series of briefings on informal STEM education.