Obama came out in April of 2009 and talked about his strong support for math and science education. He talked about increasing funding for math and science education, new programs and new grants. It seems that with all things Obama, what he says is the opposite of what he does or intends.
My household has three college students heading back to school soon, and we are looking at the bill from the university. The university has been involved in substantial improvements in its sports facilities, so it is no surprise that it has significantly increased every part of its fees and tuition.
What also unpleasantly surprised us, however, is the disappearance of the SMART grants for third and fourth year students in the field of science or math, and of the Academic Competitiveness Grant for first and second year students. These two grant programs were aimed directly at aiding students working to get higher level technical degrees of the type Obama says he wants to support. Both of these programs quietly disappeared from the Department of Education.
Now, it may be that since the Democrats spent trillions without bothering to make a budget last year, the DOE didn't think it had authorization to fund these grants- that's the easy answer. However, it is more likely that the Democrats didn't fund these programs because in spite of what they say, they don't support this type of education and would prefer to have this type of work done overseas. Whatever the reason, getting your family's college students through science and math programs just got a lot more expensive for American families.
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