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and community engagement events. The office may require the recipient 1 of these funds to report the impacts of the recipient's efforts in 2 alignment with the measures of the Washington school improvement 3 framework. 4 (b)(i) $3,000,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 5 fiscal year 2022 and $3,000,000 of the general fund—state 6 appropriation for fiscal year 2023 are provided solely for a 7 statewide information technology academy program. This public-private 8 partnership will provide educational software, as well as information 9 technology certification and software training opportunities for 10 students and staff in public schools for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 11 school years only. The office must evaluate other options that may be 12 available in the state for a future public-private partnership to 13 deliver similar services to students and staff of public schools at 14 no cost to the state. 15 (ii) The office must require the recipient of these funds to 16 report the impacts of the recipient's efforts in alignment with the 17 measures of the Washington school improvement framework. The report 18 must include the number of students served disaggregated by gender, 19 race, ethnicity, and free-and-reduced lunch eligibility as well as 20 the number of industry certificates attained by type of certificate. 21 (c) $50,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal 22 year 2022 and $50,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 23 fiscal year 2023 are provided solely for grants of $2,500 to provide 24 twenty middle and high school teachers each year with professional 25 development training for implementing integrated math, science, 26 technology, and engineering programs in their schools. 27 (d) $1,000,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal 28 year 2022 and $1,000,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 29 fiscal year 2023 are provided solely for the computer science and 30 education grant program to support the following three purposes: 31 Train and credential teachers in computer sciences; provide and 32 upgrade technology needed to learn computer science; and, for 33 computer science frontiers grants to introduce students to and engage 34 them in computer science. The office of the superintendent of public 35 instruction must use the computer science learning standards adopted 36 pursuant to chapter 3, Laws of 2015 (computer science) in 37 implementing the grant, to the extent possible. Additionally, grants 38 provided for the purpose of introducing students to computer science 39 p. 1289 ESSB 5187.SL