Get Your NASA Education Opportunities While You Can
NASA Education Express, NASA
“Guidance for Education and Public Outreach Activities Under Sequestration
NASA has taken the first steps in addressing the mandatory spending cuts called for in the Budget Control Act of 2011. The law mandates a series of indiscriminate and significant across-the-board spending reductions totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years.
As a result, NASA has been forced to implement a number of new cost-saving measures, policies, and reviews in order to minimize impacts to the mission-critical activities of the Agency. Guidance regarding conferences, travel, and training that reflect the new fiscal reality in which the agency must operate has been provided.
For specific guidance as it relates to public outreach and engagement activities please reference the following webpage.
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/sequestration-NASA-education-guidance.html
Check out the following NASA opportunities for the education community. Full descriptions are listed below…”
Marc’s note: Yup, education gutted, but here’s a list of what’s left for you.
None of my family lives in the US, so this doesn’t affect us directly, but if I were an American citizen, I’d be looking at this very closely. I’ve seen a fair amount of press on what various agencies are no longer going to be doing in terms of education and outreach, but I’ve found it a lot harder to learn what, in other agencies, is supposedly replacing the canceled activities. Overall, is this going to be a better organized, more effective, more efficient system, or is it really a carnival game to hide the fact money is simply being cut for these activities?
Realistically, I feel strongly that education is one of the very last activities any country should be cutting spending in, including the US. Obviously not all education is of equal importance, but every bit of it helps. In a world where most English-speaking kids, and young adults, say, “Me and Billy,” and haven’t got a clue that it isn’t proper English, we need more and better education. When half of today’s “celebrities” are crucifying the English language and kids are soaking it up, education is fighting an uphill battle. And on, and on… If the US government is cutting spending overall on REAL education then they’re taking yet another step towards turning the US into a third world country. But the rich keep getting richer…