112 S434 IS: Teaching Geography Is Fundamental Act
Introduced March 2, 2011
In the 112th Congress, Teaching Geography is Fundamental (TGIF) was introduced in the Senate by Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) as S.434 with Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) signing on as lead co-sponsor.
TGIF is bi-partisan legislation that would create funding for a grant program in the Department of Education to support efforts to improve geography education. The rationale for TGIF is that it corrects the oversight that left geography as the only one of the nine federally-recognized core academic subjects not to have received dedicated federal funding in the past 10 years (since the enactment of No Child Left Behind).