President Bush continued his campaign to get schools to focus more on mathematics and science education with a visit to a middle school in Rockville, Maryland, where students study robotics and work with NASA scientists. President Bush toured the school with Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings as part of his initiative to emphasize math and science education to prepare students to compete in the global job market. Parkland is one of three schools that make up the Middle School Magnet Consortium in the 139,000 Montgomery County, Maryland, school district. The consortium is financed by a $7.2 million grant from the Department of Education. Mr. Bush said the goal of his initiative is to keep America "a bold and innovative country." He noted the impending visit to the United States by President Hu Jintao of China, who arrived in Washington on April 20, as a way to call attention to the global pressure to excel in math and science.