Last  week the White House announced that its new Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Master Teacher Corps initiative  will place "50 top-notch STEM teachers to be established at 50 sites across the country," expanding to 10,000 over  the next four years.

Already  using an available $100 million, Obama has asked for $1 billion more in his 2013  budget.

July  27 marks the deadline for science and math teachers interested in joining  President Obama's STEM Master Teachers Corps to send in their applications.

  According to Roberto  Rodriguez, special assistant to Obama on education and former Senior  Education Specialist at the National Council of La Raza, the corps will consist  of those at the top of their profession.

They'll  be an elite group of teachers leading their communities. They'd lead  professional development [courses], mentorship activities, and would be  regularly contributing new lesson plans  and strategies to transform and improve science and math  teaching.

Which  Obama appointees are weighing in on this billion dollar Ivy League teacher  corps?

•   La Raza radical, Cecelia Munoz, now a domestic policy adviser to Obama;
•   Population control fanatic John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of  Science and Technology Policy;
•   Eric Lander, one of left-wing Eli Broad Foundation's favorite geneticists and  co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology  (PCAST);
• Department of Education Secretary Arne  Duncan, the former head of Chicago Schools.