Last year, you joined 27 governors, 49 CEOs and 26 leaders from education on a Change.org petition calling for federal funding for K-12 computer science. Today, our call succeeded. The White House announced a $200 million per year expansion in computer science offerings in America’s schools. Unlike similar proposals in previous years, today’s action delivers funding to schools, immediately. This funding will be focused on both computer science and reaching diverse populations of students that otherwise don’t have access to computer science. This is a major step forward in the movement to bring K-12 computer science to our schools. This movement began several years ago and has spread rapidly across the US. Hundreds of millions of students and hundreds of thousands of teachers first embraced computer science with the Hour of Code. School districts started to adopt rigorous computer science courses. And now entire states have gotten behind the movement. Numerous Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have joined together to support the push for federal funding. Last year, President Obama proposed funding for K-12 computer science. And now, showing the bipartisan spirit behind this movement, the White House announced that the Department of Education will allocate funding to support computer science. We recognize that we are living in incredibly divided times. Amidst this division, it is hopeful to see leaders from all levels of government come together to support computer science. When you signed the computer science education petition last year, you recognized that expanding K-12 computer science will benefit America’s students. Today’s announcement will enable schools that don’t teach computer science to finally offer rigorous courses. And it can address populations that need it the most -- underrepresented groups in computing, including girls, minorities, rural and low-income students. We all want opportunities for our children, and there’s no better way to offer them opportunity than to prepare them for the careers of the future. In coming days, there will be more information on how computer science education advocates can weigh in with the US Department of Education on the details of this effort, so stay tuned. We thank you for your support and for your grassroots advocacy on this issue.