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Education Week
Two states, Wyoming and Idaho, passed laws mandating schools offer computer science instruction, with the goal of preparing students for the future workforce. Wyoming's law requires districts to offer computer science instruction for all students in grades K-12 and calls on the state department of education to develop computer science standards to integrate into the state's Common Core. Students will also be able to use computer science courses to fulfill some academic and state scholarship requirements.
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New York Business Journal
New York state pledges to invest millions in computer training for teachers. Recently, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed that the state budget will include $6 million toward funding the initiative, which is being touted as the nation's largest commitment to computer science education. The money will pay for training computer science teachers, with the first grants going to elementary and middle schools as well as districts with the greatest need.
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The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
Gov. Kim Reynolds' Iowa Future Ready Summit highlighted steps the state is taking to better train its students for the workforce, but whether young people will use those skills in Iowa jobs — rather than out-of-state — remains to be seen. "The worst thing is you train all these kids, and then they want to live in Colorado," said John Hickenlooper, Colorado's governor. "And some do." Reynolds, Hickenlooper, and Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson discussed the expansion of computer science education in their respective states during a panel at the summit moderated by Iowa Department of Education Director Ryan Wise.
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EdScoop News
Computer science education has been a "steadily growing movement" across the state of California, Sophia Mendoza tells EdScoop TV, and there's no better exemplar for that movement than the Los Angeles Unified School District. The nation's second-largest school system — where Mendoza serves as director of the instructional technology initiative — has ramped up investment in and momentum around computer science this school year, Mendoza says.
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THE Journal
Amazon is committing $50 million to computer science education in the United States with new programs supporting high school and early undergraduate students, including financial aid to help schools bring AP CS courses to their students.
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EdScoop
Global consulting and accounting company PwC has pledged $320 million over the next five years to reach 10 million students in underserved communities across the United States and teach them STEM skills. The announcement comes days after the introduction of a similar effort by the Verizon Foundation.
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GeekWire
There are tens of thousands of open technology jobs in Washington state because there aren't enough candidates trained in the necessary skills to fill them. The University of Washington has been racing to close that gap for years and will pass a critical milestone in 2018, thanks to $3 million in new funding awarded in the state's supplemental budget.
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Education Week
Do you get confused by the lingo that computer geeks are using these days? Here's the first in a series of posts to help you get up to speed on computer science terminology. Computer science is very broad, and is defined as the study of computers and their applications. Programming and computer science cannot be used interchangeably. They are not the same thing. Computer science includes programming and also includes lots of other concepts such as computational thinking, artificial intelligence, computer systems and networks, security, database systems, human computer interaction, vision and graphics, numerical analysis, programming languages, software engineering, bioinformatics and theory of computing.
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