For Bush, math and science legislation is a gift horse

A number of legislators of both parties have put the wrappings on a proposal for next year that could be the best present under President Bush’s tree — an initiative that would please business, labor, parents, teachers, students — and be good for the country.

Inside the package is a creation framed by the best scientific minds to keep the United States in the forefront of innovation and technology.

It is aimed at assuring this country’s competitive position in the new global economy and thereby improving prospects for more American families to be able to enjoy comfortable middle-class lives.

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Next, tackle the talent supply problem: recruit 10,000 future science and math teachers each year and award them four-year college scholarships, with big bonuses to those who teach in underserved schools; give additional training to 250,000 current math and science teachers; provide large grants to 200 promising young researchers; create an advanced research projects agency in the Department of Energy; provide 25,000 competitive scholarships a year to undergraduates in physical sciences, engineering and math; fund 5,000 new graduate fellowships a year in those fields; make it easier for foreign students in those fields to obtain visas for study here and ease their way if they want to remain here to work; expand immigration opportunities for people with those needed skills; provide tax incentives for U.S.-based innovations; and expand access to broadband communications.

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toward doing what this initiative claims to do.

if CS is going to be offshored...

it is too smart of an idea.

It also has Democrat written all over it. So maybe after the 2006 elections?

But I doubt the president will go for it.

It might inflame their superstitious base.

Bake