Presidential Document2024-27304
American Education Week, 2024
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November 20, 2024
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November 15, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 224 (Wednesday, November 20, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 91525-91526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27304]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 224 / Wednesday, November 20, 2024 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10859 of November 15, 2024
American Education Week, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During American Education Week, we celebrate the power
and promise of our Nation's public education system,
which has empowered so many students to realize their
full potential regardless of their zip code. We show
gratitude for educators and staff, who ensure that our
schools are filled with hope and possibilities. And we
recommit to ensuring each student, educator, and school
has the resources and opportunities they need to
thrive.
America's public education system helps define who we
are: a Nation of possibilities, where everyone gets a
fair shot to pursue their talents and ambitions. Some
of our Nation's greatest scholars and scientists,
artists and humanitarians, and dreamers and doers got
their start at a public school. Many have further honed
their skills in our colleges, universities, Registered
Apprenticeships, and career and technical education
programs. An education gives you something no one can
take away--that is why we must remain committed to
supporting our schools, which open the doors of
opportunity wider for everyone.
I am proud that my Administration secured a historic
$130 billion in funding for our Nation's K-12 schools
through my American Rescue Plan. That law put more
teachers in classrooms and put more counselors, social
workers, and other supportive staff in our schools. It
also invested in high-quality tutoring and made
historic expansions in summer and after-school programs
while upgrading the physical school buildings,
including making aging buildings more secure and
improving air quality.
My Administration also remains committed to ensuring
students have the resources they need to succeed. My
American Rescue Plan led to our country's biggest-ever
investment in mental health and substance use programs,
providing critical funding to increase the number of
mental health providers in our schools. Furthermore, my
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act--the first major
Federal gun safety legislation passed in nearly 30
years--made important steps toward ending the threat of
gun violence, which brings terror to far too many
schools. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act also
included $2 billion in funding to create safe,
inclusive learning environments for all students and to
train and hire more mental health professionals for
schools. My Administration also made it easier for
schools to bill Medicaid so that they could deliver
critical health services, including mental health
services to students. And through my national strategy
to end hunger and reduce diet-related diseases in
America by 2030, we are working toward a future where
every kid has access to free, healthy school meals.
Setting students up for success also means improving
our Nation's early childhood education. Children who go
to preschool are nearly 50 percent more likely to
finish high school and go on to earn a 2- or 4-year
degree no matter their background. My Administration
has fought to make preschool universal for every 3- and
4-year-old in America.
To support our Nation's higher education system, my
Administration secured nearly $40 billion for colleges
and universities through my American Rescue Plan. That
includes billions of dollars in funding for Minority-
Serving Institutions and Historically Black Colleges
and Universities. I have always believed
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that higher education should be a pathway to the middle
class--but we have to make it more affordable. That is
why my Administration provided the largest increases to
the maximum Pell Grant award in over a decade, making
college more affordable for over six million students.
We also canceled student loan debt for over one million
public service workers, including teachers, by fixing
the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.
Before I took office, only 7,000 public service workers
had ever received the forgiveness they were entitled to
through PSLF. In total, we have approved debt
cancellation for nearly five million Americans across
all our various debt relief actions, including fixing
Income-Driven Repayment so borrowers get the relief
they earned and holding the colleges that take
advantage of students and families accountable.
Everyone deserves a fair shot at the American Dream, so
my Administration has invested more in Registered
Apprenticeships and career and technical training
programs than any other administration in history,
empowering workers to earn while they learn and opening
up new pathways to secure good-paying jobs. We are also
working to expand Registered Apprenticeships for
educators and increase access to high-quality teacher
preparation programs, including by making them more
affordable.
During American Education Week, we show our gratitude
to the educators and school staff across our Nation,
who are the kite strings that keep our national
ambitions aloft. And together, we will work to ensure
our Nation's students have every opportunity to
succeed.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 17
through November 23, 2024, as American Education Week.
I call upon all Americans to mark this week with
appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities
honoring those who devote their talents and energies to
helping our children reach their full potential and to
building school communities where all students feel
they belong.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.
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