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Obama Budget Threatens Popular STEM Education Initiatives
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The Obama Administration plans to restructure and consolidate STEM education into three agencies, the Department of Education, the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution and cut programs with overlapping initiatives.
By doing so, educational initiatives from the National Institute of Health (NIH), along with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who fund more than 60 programs, museum exhibits, classroom curricula, teacher professional development, mobile science lab buses web sites, and reach more than 80,000 students are lost in the consolidation shuffle.
The cutting of programs with overlapping initiatives are putting programs that bring kids in contact with the latest scientific advances are in danger.
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