The First Lady and Secretary Cardona to Visit Connecticut, Michigan, and Georgia, Highlight How the American Rescue Plan is Helping Students Recover and Thrive This Summer
First Lady Jill Biden and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will be visiting Detroit this week as part of a tour across the country to highlight how President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) is supporting students in getting caught up through summer learning programs.
The First Lady and Secretary Cardona will travel to summer learning and enrichment programs in Connecticut, Michigan, and Georgia, using ARP funding to address the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on students’ academic and mental health needs.
These summer learning and enrichment programs work to ensure students have access to academic and mental health resources over the summer, and are ready to succeed when they return to school.
Across the country, communities are using President Biden’s American Rescue Plan funds to expand summer learning opportunities and help students recover. President Biden’s American Rescue Plan provided a historic $122 billion in funding to help schools safely reopen and stay open, and address student learning loss and mental health needs.
The First Lady and Secretary Cardona will arrive in Connecticut first, visiting a non-profit organization that is serving elementary students from local public schools.
On Thursday morning the First Lady and Secretary Cardona will visit a Detroit Public Schools Community District summer learning program, held at Schulze Academy for Technology and Arts in Detroit, serving kindergarten through 8th-grade students from the school district. This visit will be open press with limited capacity.
Later in the day the First Lady will also make stops in Georgia.
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