E.D., N.S.F. To Pool Funds For Math, Science Education
WASHINGTON--Secretary Of Education Lamar Alexander and Walter E. Massey, the director of the National Science Foundation, last week signed an agreement to pool their agencies' resources and to jointly plan and develop programs in precollegiate mathematics and science education.
The "memorandum of understanding" would enable the agencies, which together provide 85 percent of federal spending on precollegiate education, to target $657 million "toward helping our children learn math and science to world-class standards," Mr. Alexander said.
"To combine these two forces is a significant...
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