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The article discusses the decrease in the number of computer science education programs in high schools in the U.S. and argues that the critical thinking and analytical skills learned through computer science courses can be applied across the curriculum. It focuses on the efforts of the authors to promote computer science education for low-income black, Latino, and female minority students in California's Los Angeles Unified School District through their Exploring Computer Science courses and their educational alliance Mobilizing for Innovative Computer Science Teaching and Learning. It also comments on the computer science teacher training programs that are part of their efforts and explores the expansion of these initiatives on a national scale.