FCAT Science

Pres­i­dent Obama announced a $250 mil­lion public-private com­bi­na­tion effort to improve sci­ence and math­e­mat­ics instruc­tion. The goal of the ini­tia­tive is to help the United States com­pete in sci­ence and engi­neer­ing fields with global eco­nomic com­peti­tors. The fund­ing will pre­pare more than 10,000 new math and sci­ence teach­ers teach­ers over the next five years, and pro­vide on-the-job train­ing for an addi­tional 100,000 teach­ers in STEM fields. I am hop­ing that the state of Florida ben­e­fits from this inia­tive via pro­vid­ing addi­tional and much needed qual­ity hands-on pro­fes­sional staff devel­op­ment for math and sci­ence teach­ers. For fur­ther details on the ini­tia­tive see the arti­cle by Nick Ander­son, Wash­ing­ton Post Staff Writer in the fol­low­ing link “>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010602063.html”>