Loss of Aid Stints Math-Science Resources

Backers say programs for teachers needed to boost achievement.

Two popular programs that offered classroom resources for math and science teachers—via the Internet and other means—have lost their federal funding, forcing one of them to shut down and the other to charge for services it once provided for free.

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse and the Eisenhower Regional Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education saw spending on their programs end this fall, in a combined $20 million in budget cuts supported by the Bush administration and Congress. The consortium has closed.

Administration officials have argued that the goals of the two programs—which worked together but were operated separately—will be better served through a newly created set of federally financed regional education centers, which will...