<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Here are the notes from today’s code advocacy call<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a href="http://advocacy.code.org">advocacy.code.org</a> is building a new web page.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">It includes a state planning toolkit.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">They need to know how funds are being spent at the district level. More states are already applying also as partner consortium. Sean knows of other states who are applying.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The DC advocates are already starting FY19 spending. CS Ed coalition looking for them to allocate targeted CS funds. higher ed act is also under consideration</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>State news of note<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr">
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Michigan CS4Michigan. Focused on funding so all high schools offer at least 1 CS course and will start standards in 2 weeks. Governor has a partial plan. Some CS PD funding. May 9 testify.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hawaii 500K CS PD funding passed final reading. includes state plan for CS 2021-2022. Dept of Ed presenting </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Mississippi adopted standards. (big deal from them)</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Adequate education must be offered by every school and that now includes CS</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">NJ All high schools bill passed. Implementation fact sheets are available through <a href="http://code.org/advocacy">code.org/advocacy</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">17 governors in partnership for CS. Cooper from NC joined.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The <a href="http://code.org">code.org</a> survey is being filled out every day by schools. They also reach out to each state department of ed in public high schools. Already can be accessed. <a href="http://code.org/yourschool">code.org/yourschool</a> over half of the countries public high schools
and 25% of schools overall.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Want help, ES and MS are challenging. They're looking for help. Plan to collect data each year.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">May 18 summit organizers? june 6 next meeting.</p>
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