Check out the Coalition’s written testimony to the House Science Committee on STEM ed policies and the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act.

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Our Coalition was proud to work with the Afterschool Alliance to rally more than 70 national, state, and local organizations in support of a broad-based agenda to advance Afterschool STEM education as a mean to improve student learning in these critical subjects.

The STEM Education Coalition has issued a statement on House consideration of the Student Success Act (H.R. 5).

The STEM Education Coalition issued a statement on Senate Passage of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744).

Statement on the House Republican Student Success Act.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pension’s will soon meetto mark-up the Strengthening America’s Schools Act, a bill that wouldreauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.  Our Coalitionissued a statement praising today’s action in the Committee to advanceeducation reform.

On behalf of the Minnesota Science Teachers Association, thank you for your leadership in the Senate with Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education issues.

 On behalf of the STEM Education Coalition, we urge you to support the bipartisan Hatch #9 Amendment, which will help prepare current and future U.S. students for the best, high-paying jobs of the 21st Century in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.  We applaud Senators Coons and Klobuchar for co-sponsoring this proposal.  

Read the full letter.

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Read the full letter from the STEM Education Coalition.

This is the 2012 Annual Report for the STEM Education Coalition’s activities and accomplishments for the past year.   

Members of Congress are on the campaign trail as the final weeks of the election season wind down, plus two STEM related reports of note, and more, all below. 

As we near the fall Presidential election and what is sure to be a very busy and unpredictable “lame duck” session of Congress that will immediately follow, we pass along a series of updates on issues that will impact the STEM education community.  

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.

The Coalition sent messages to the Senate Appropriations Committee in support of the Math and Science Partnership Program at the Department of Education.

A number of great events and key reports on STEM listed below, but first please review the action item letter from the coalition to House and Senate appropriations leaders.

Each year, the Coalition revises and reissues its Core Policy Principles, which are used to guide the advocacy activities and goals of the Coalition throughout the year. 

Today, the Coalition was invited to testify before Chairman Frank Wolf’s Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science on the role of the National Science Foundation in improving STEM education.