# Stakeholder: District

**URL:** <https://forum.code.org/t/stakeholder-district/8023>\
**Category:** Elevator Pitches for Stakeholders\
**Created:** [June 23, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/stakeholder-district/8023 "2016-06-23T14:15:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![linda\_pchelka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@linda\_pchelka](https://forum.code.org/u/linda_pchelka)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/stakeholder-district/8023/1 "2016-06-23T14:15:38Z")

</div>

District Level

Good morning! I am so glad I have run into today. I wanted  
to talk to you about this new course being offered called Computer Science  
Principles. It’s an Advanced Placement course that is designed to introduce  
students to the field of computer science as a whole.

Did you know that statistics show that there are  
approximately 1.4 million jobs in the field of computer science and only about  
400,000 people in the pipeline to fill those jobs? We really need to be  
preparing students for those opportunities. Another great thing about this  
course is that it has been designed in such a way that it actually supports the  
goals of the new SAT test.

This course was designed by the college board and an  
organization called [code.org](http://code.org) to provide a turnkey curriculum that would allow  
any teacher with some basic understanding of how a computer works to teach this  
course.

What our district really needs from you is a directive to  
our principals to find a teacher who would be willing to teach this course in  
every one of our high schools.