Obama Seeks $4.1 Billion to Expand Computer Programming Classes
- Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to support plan
- President to include initiative in fiscal 2017 budget
A child learns how to build a video game using code on an Apple Inc. iPad Mini during the Hour of Code workshop at an Apple store in New York on Dec. 10, 2015.
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President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $4.1 billion to expand computer programming classes in every public school, the White House said today.
The proposal, backed by technology firms including Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., will be included in Obama’s fiscal 2017 budget, to be released Feb. 9. Teaching basic coding to more grade-school children is necessary to expand the U.S. economy, Obama said.