Article: Former Graduate and Cal Poly Launch Initiative to Help Ease Critical Shortage of Math and Science Teachers in Low-Income Areas.

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2004

One of the nation's foremost trial attorneys, Joseph Cotchett, and his wife, Victoria, have pledged $7 million to California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) to launch a model program to put more math and science teachers in classrooms in low-income neighborhoods.

This program, a unique public-private partnership which will be administered by Cal Poly's University Center for Teacher Education (UCTE), is being announced today at naming ceremonies for the Cotchett Education Building on the Cal Poly campus.

Cotchett, described by USA Today ...

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