Throughout primary and secondary education. skills retention is one of the most pressing concerns facing underrepresented students. Without access to afterschool and summer programs. even those students with a passion for STEM risk falling behind their peers. Jackson Lee Amendment #22 made grants available to local education agencies to support training in STEM education methods to teachers to improve their instruction at schools serving neglected. delinquent. and migrant students. English learners. atrisk students. and Native Americans as determined by the director. Jackson Lee Amendment #23 establishes within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources an Office of STEM Education Gap Awareness with the duties of reducing the STEM gap in K12 and postsecondary education among underrepresented populations.