A letter from Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to the university system’s faculty-run board of admissions — and signed by a host of Silicon Valley VIPs, including Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, as well as Assembly Republican Leader Kristen Olsen and Secretary of State Alex Padilla — argued that upgrading computer science from an elective to a core math course for college-entrance purposes “would acknowledge that computer science is a legitimate field and a valuable foundation for many academic pursuits… It would provide an incentive for schools to offer these classes and for students to take them,” the letter said.

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by Katy Murphy, The San Jose Mercury News.

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