Improving STEM education in America. ... I strongly support the INSPIRES Act to improve STEM and technical education programs in high schools, community colleges, and minority-serving institutions like Lincoln University in our community.
Support stronger STEM and technical education programs.
Occurrences
Increase federal support for STEM education to give students a world-class education that prepares them for the jobs of the future
Increase STEM education opportunities, mental health and early intervention staffing, and reduce bullying.
Evidence
Houlahan's Education priority page says she supports increasing federal support for STEM education, expanding apprenticeship opportunities, and strengthening the Workforce Pell Grant Program for certificate or license training.
Assessments
The promise is framed as support, not sole enactment of a single national program. In office, Houlahan took multiple concrete actions consistent with that promise: her official education agenda calls for more federal STEM funding, apprenticeships, and stronger Workforce Pell support; her official accomplishments page says she held town halls on STEM and workforce development, helped pass the CHIPS and Science Act, introduced the STEM RESTART Act and the Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act, introduced a federal cybersecurity apprenticeship bill, and secured district funding for STEM and workforce-training programs. For a federal House member, that record amounts to materially supporting stronger STEM and technical education programs during her service.