Conferees Assess Progress on Math, Science Education

Washington

Members of Congress looked last year to the recommendations of a widely circulated report, “Rising Above the Gathering Storm,” for inspiration when they approved legislation that authorized a host of new federal programs in mathematics and science education.

But so far, lawmakers have not risen to the task of actually paying for those programs.

The disconnect between those math and science education proposals, signed into law by President Bush last summer, and federal officials’ inability to fund them was a central topic at a summit of corporate leaders, scientists, and a select group of lawmakers who...