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State budget allocates $1 million for K-12 coding initiative

Carmen Forman//June 4, 2018//[read_meter]

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State budget allocates $1 million for K-12 coding initiative

State budget allocates $1 million for K-12 coding initiative

Carmen Forman//June 4, 2018//[read_meter]

(Deposit Photos/Red Pixel) As K-12 curricula moves into the 21st century, Arizona will kick-start a new initiative to train teachers how to code — lessons they...

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Tags: education, K-12 education, code.org, education funding, doug ducey, Governors’ Partnership for K-12 Computer Science, steve zylstra, Arizona, Arizona Technology Council, computer science, Native American Code Writers Initiative Pilot Program, coding, Steve Smith

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