A Good Week for Science

A third of a loaf is better than nothing. That’s the feeling among the U.S. research community after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to boost the current budgets of four key science agencies by $337 million.  Arden Bement, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), applauding what he called the lawmakers’ “strong support for science.  The bill (HR 2642) contains $62.5 million each for NSF, NASA, and the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science and $150 million more for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Good news for science education in this bill 🙂

The House demonstrated its strong support for education by funneling two-thirds of the supplemental funding into NSF’s efforts to train science teachers. In addition to doubling the current $10 million budget for  the supplemental bill which pays savvy college graduates to earn master’s degrees and become  teachers in the public schools and also improves the skills of existing teachers

 

 

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One Response to A Good Week for Science

  1. S.Scott says:

    Even more good news!! Callaway resigns!!
    🙂

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