First lady Dr. Jill Biden visited a suburban high school Monday to kick off National Apprenticeship Week, a yearly program celebrating the importance of apprenticeship programs run by unions and employers in the U.S.
Biden was joined in the Chicago-area by Education Secretary Dr. Miguel Cardona, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
The first lady met with students at Rolling Meadows High School, as well as business leaders in Chicago that are part of programs that are helping students and workers to find good-paying jobs.Get Chicago local news, weather forecasts, sports and entertainment stories to your inbox. “We want kids to build, we want to apply that STEM learning, and we want to engage those students in possible careers and experience real situations before they graduate,” teacher and administrator Dave Wietrzak said. “My teachers have greatly influenced my learning and interest in engineering through the fun projects that we do,” she said.
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