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White House Honors Math, Science Teachers
(Photo Credit: David Bohrer/White House)
Ninety-nine educators from around the country have been awarded the annual Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching for 2007. The teachers, who each get a certificate and $10,000 educational grant to be used over a three-year period, will be recognized during a ceremony on Friday evening hosted by National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement.
While in Washington this week, the teachers visited the White House and were slated to meet a NASA astronaut as well as members of Congress and the Bush administration to discuss hot topics in math and science teaching. A little bird tells us the group had been promised a snapshot with POTUS himself but he was busy chatting up the New York Giants who stopped by the South Lawn the same day. Instead, the teachers posed for a photo-op with Vice President Dick Cheney.
Click here for the press release and here for a larger Cheney pic.
Update: An administration official pointed out that Bush met with the award winners in 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 and First Lady Laura Bush met with them in 2003 and 2007. Cheney met with the recipients in 2002 and again this year. According to the source, former President Bill Clinton never (or rarely) met with them.
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