What Happened to Obama’s $4 Billion in Computer Science Funding?
11th December 2016
Hint: It was a scam to buy more votes from the SWPL crowd.
Back in January, President Obama asked Congress to set aside $4 billion for computer science education, in what would have been the federal government’s largest targeted funding for promoting the subject in schools. The proposal seemed designed to generate more headlines than actual funding — and now, nearly a year down the road, that largely seems to be what’s happened.
Not mentioned: The threshold question of What business is it of the Federal government to spend money on computer education?