On Thursday, October 30, 2003 the Subcommittee on Research of the House Science Committee
held a hearing to discuss the implementation of the Math Science Partnership (MSP)
Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The MSP Program, part of President
Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative, was authorized by the House in the NSF
Authorization Act, which was signed into law in December 2002. The program provides grants to
partnerships of universities and school districts (and sometimes businesses) to improve K-12
math and science education. This hearing was the Congress's first look at how this major
new initiative is working.
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