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House Votes to Eliminate Funding for NSF Climate Change Education Program
http://aip.org/fyi/2012/073.html[font face=Serif][font size=5]FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News[/font]
[font size=4]House Votes to Eliminate Funding for NSF Climate Change Education Program[/font]
Richard M. Jones
Number 73 - May 24, 2012
[font size=3]Earlier this month the House of Representatives passed HR. 5326, the FY 2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill. Before doing so, Members voted on 63 amendments to the bill, of which 36 were adopted.
Among those amendments that the House approved was one offered by Rep. Chip Cravaack, a first term Republican representing Minnesota’s 8th District. Under his amendment, funding was eliminated for the National Science Foundation’s Climate Change Education Program in FY 2013..
The Climate Change Education Program is a cross-cutting program administered by the foundation’s Research and Related Activities, and Education and Human Resources directorates. The current budget is $10.0 million; the Administration requested $6.3 million for FY 2013.
A foundation document states:
[font size=4]House Votes to Eliminate Funding for NSF Climate Change Education Program[/font]
Richard M. Jones
Number 73 - May 24, 2012
[font size=3]Earlier this month the House of Representatives passed HR. 5326, the FY 2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill. Before doing so, Members voted on 63 amendments to the bill, of which 36 were adopted.
Among those amendments that the House approved was one offered by Rep. Chip Cravaack, a first term Republican representing Minnesota’s 8th District. Under his amendment, funding was eliminated for the National Science Foundation’s Climate Change Education Program in FY 2013..
The Climate Change Education Program is a cross-cutting program administered by the foundation’s Research and Related Activities, and Education and Human Resources directorates. The current budget is $10.0 million; the Administration requested $6.3 million for FY 2013.
A foundation document states:
“The Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program seeks to establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts. Each CCEP is required to be of a large enough scale that it will have catalytic or transformative impact that cannot be achieved through other core NSF program awards. The CCEP program is one facet of a larger NSF collection of awards related to Climate Change Education (CCE) that has two goals: (1) preparing a new generation of climate scientists, engineers, and technicians equipped to provide innovative and creative approaches to understanding global climate change and to mitigate its impact; and, (2) preparing today's U.S. citizens to understand global climate change and its implications in ways that can lead to informed, evidence-based responses and solutions.”…[/font][/font]
