Google, Microsoft join $48m pledge for US computer science, demand $250m from Congress

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by Sindy Cator on April 26, 2016 at 5:42 pm

Everyone who’s anyone in tech – from Jess Bezos to Mark Zuckerberg – has signed an open letter to Congress urging them to put $250m of federal funds towards providing every student in every school with the opportunity to learn computer science. Some $48 million has been raised privately, including $23 million from the likes of Microsoft and Google towards Code.org, plus additional funds from both of these companies and others specifically geared towards schools. The letter has been organized by the Computer Science Education Coalition in partnership with Code.org and cites statistics that indicate “11 percent of all job openings and 16 percent…