{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hurd.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/texas-representative-introduces-cs-curriculum-initiative", "Texas Representative Introduces CS Curriculum Initiative", "2016-12-15", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Will Hurd", "H001073", "hurd.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "In an effort to increase access to computer science (CS) education, Congressman Will Hurd (R-Texas) yesterday\u00a0announced\u00a0an initiative to train middle school math teachers on how to implement coding concepts into their math classes. The initiative aims to build a strong pipeline of qualified STEM workers for future generations by introducing students to CS prior to high school.\n\u201cEvery chance I get, I tell young people about the opportunities that a computer science education can provide,\u201d Hurd wrote in the announcement. \u201cMany are shocked to learn that although an estimated 42,000 computing jobs are waiting to be filled in Texas, only 2,100 computer scientists graduated from Texas schools last year. Students are even more interested to learn that the average salary of a computer science professional is more than $85,000 \u2026. Offering tech education early on not only serves as the foundation for continued education in high school and beyond, but it also exposes students to the jobs we will need to fill in the future.\u201d\nThe curriculum initiative was designed in partnership with\u00a0The University of Texas at Austin\u2019s\u00a0Center for STEM Education\u00a0and\u00a0Bootstrap, and sponsored by several tech companies, including\u00a0Dell,\u00a0Facebook\u00a0and\u00a0Brocade. The partners will instruct eighth grade math teachers to use \u201ceasily adoptable curriculum consistent with national and state math standards,\u201d according to the initiative\u00a0  web page. Using Bootstrap, teachers will receive training on the following:\n Word problems;\n\tPlanes and graphing;\n\tFunctions and variables;\n\tFunction composition;\n\tInequalities in the plane; and\n\tThe Pythagorean theorem.\n Middle school teachers located in the 23rd Congressional District of Texas, or schools that serve a considerable amount of students in the 23rd district, are eligible to apply for the next three-day training workshop taking place March 23-25 in San Antonio, TX. The event is limited to 40 participants and registration costs $75. The deadline to apply is Jan. 31.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hurd.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/texas-representative-introduces-cs-curriculum-initiative"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4810329303145409, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}