Education Week 

There’s been building momentum to address the discrepancy between the demand for workers in computer science fields and the supply of qualified candidates produced by the educational system. Now, the U.S. Congress may have a chance to enact legislation on it.

Colorado Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat, introduced the Computer Science Education Act on Friday, which if passed would offer grants to evaluate K-12 computer science education across the states and implement changes, create a commission to review the field’s national landscape, and even establish field-specific programs at teacher-prep institutions. Computer industry giants Microsoft, Google, Intel and SAS have offered their endorsements, as have the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA).

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