Advocacy Tools
Policy Makers Brochure
This printable brochure provides important information on the link between high school computer science education and
national competitiveness in the global economy. It also provides community leaders, policy-makers, and legislators
with practical suggestions for raising awareness about the current computing crisis and promoting policies and
programs that will influence change.
As part of the ongoing advocacy efforts of the Computing in the Core group (of which CSTA is a founding member), Senator Casey (PA) and Representative
Polis (CO) introduced the Computer Science Education Act (CSEA). This piece of legislation is one of our most important tools for getting computer science
education issues on the table as part of the current debate over the proposed Elementary and Secondary Education Act (formerly NCLB).
Click here for the complete legislation.
Click here for the CSEA one-pager.
Click here for the CSEA Fact Sheet.
CSTA Advocacy Toolkit
This toolkit was created by CSTA for the CSTA Leadership Cohort. It is a comprehensive guide to advocating on behalf of computer science education. The
toolkit provides key information on how to identify and contact the various stakeholders, and how to make an argument for computer science education that
is directly relevant and convincing for each stakeholder group. It includes talking points, references, and resources.
Click here to download toolkit.
Computing Education and Future Jobs
On this page you'll find data about IT jobs and computer science education, disaggregated by state and congressional district. We encourage you to use these
data to influence educators, legislators, administrators, parents, and other decision-makers where you live or work. Please keep in mind that these are the
best available computing education and workforce indicators to date; however, they do have limitations. They should serve as a starting point for advocating
for CS education and NOT as a way to rank or evaluate specific states and districts. To get the full picture, we suggest you start with the
national graphic
and then move to state- and district-level data.
Click here to access jobs data.
