{"id":440,"date":"2009-04-30T09:50:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T14:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=440"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:58:32","slug":"legislation-would-provide-inner-city-schools-access-to-first-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2009\/04\/30\/legislation-would-provide-inner-city-schools-access-to-first-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation Would Provide Inner-City Schools Access To FIRST Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From ASEE <a href=\"http:\/\/links.mkt753.com\/servlet\/MailView?ms=NDA0ODcyNAS2&#038;r=MzU4NTAyMDEwMQS2&#038;j=MTE2MDc4MzcwS0&#038;mt=1&#038;rt=0\">First Bell<\/a> April 30, 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-04-29-robotics-schools_N.htm\">USA Today<\/a> (4\/30, Der Bedrosian) reports that Brian Toohey, &#8220;senior vice president for international affairs at Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, is rallying support among members of Congress and Department of Education employees for legislation&#8221; that would &#8220;make a robotics education accessible to every public high school.&#8221; Noting that &#8220;the publicity boost&#8221; from the recent FIRST championship in Atlanta may help his cause, Toohey &#8220;is crafting legislation that could secure $100 million over five years&#8221; to &#8220;fund a program that would allow inner-city schools access to the FIRST program.&#8221; Toohey, who has volunteered with the program for several years, called the amount &#8220;modest,&#8221; noting that currently, FIRST &#8220;relies on corporate sponsors, but&#8230;has had a tough time finding sponsors and mentors for low-income areas.&#8221; Toohey added, &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen (the program) work in thousands of schools across the country, and we know that the model works.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ASEE First Bell April 30, 2009 USA Today (4\/30, Der Bedrosian) reports that Brian Toohey, &#8220;senior vice president for international affairs at Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, is rallying support among members of Congress and Department of Education &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2009\/04\/30\/legislation-would-provide-inner-city-schools-access-to-first-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5586,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}