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WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, applauded the President’s new plan to strengthen math and science education, ensuring that young Americans will graduate with the skills they need to succeed in college and to compete for the high-demand jobs of the 21st Century.“I support President Bush’s new plan to strengthen math and science education as a way for American workers to maintain their competitive edge over the rest of the world at a time when our economy has gone from national to global,” Cornyn said. “For America to remain competitive, we need to continue to be the innovators, we need to continue to be the ones who fill the good, high-paying jobs by educating our workforce to make sure they are prepared to earn good salaries.” The President’s plan strengthens and modernizes vocational and technical education, expands math and science education for all students, enables more low-income students to pursue degrees in math and science, and enables educators to determine whether high schools are graduating students with the skills they need to succeed.“America has competed and will always compete when it comes to the free market and education is the key,” Cornyn said.The workforce added 308,000 jobs in March, the largest increase in four years. To continue moving the economy forward, President Bush promoted a new initiative Monday that will help grow jobs by doubling the number of Americans who participate in workforce training partnerships. Sen. Cornyn recently visited community colleges in Amarillo, Austin, Bryan, Harlingen, Houston and Victoria to support job training initiatives at institutions in those cities. These colleges and many others in the state are providers of increasingly critical job training, both for degree-seekers and for workers seeking to retool, refine, and broaden their skills.