Bob Moul’s campaign to get computer science into Philly K-12 schools, formerly rallied around the name #TEaCH, has evolved into CS4Philly, a broader effort around which growing support from government officials.

Straight out of the gate, the effort has rallied support from government, academia and business: alongside Moul, the honorary campaign chairs feature Mayor Jim Kenney; Comcast exec David Cohen; Judd Pittman, special counsel to the Pennsylvania Department of Education; Farah Jimenez, President and CEO, Philadelphia Education Fund; and William Hite, Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia.

“We finally got great support and people are really backing this,” said Moul, who stepped down as CEO of Cloudamize following its merger with London-based Cloudreach over the summer. “This is a massive undertaking, it could be a decade-long project.”

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