Teachers provide the essential connection between students and the content they are learning.
Thus, high quality teachers must be identified, recruited, and retained in every school district throughout the Nation. In particular, Ehlers, vice chairman of the House Science Committee and a physicist and physics educator before coming to Congress, has been seeking ways to improve the recruitment, preparation, and retention of good science and math teachers in the nation's schools. At a press conference yesterday he introduced three bills that address these concerns. My bills are a step in that direction. The bills target three different aspects of federal involvement in science and math education.