Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will view the speech at Southern High School and discuss its contents with students afterward. Jackson will also spend part of Tuesday touring facilities in the Research Triangle Park. The EPA, with 2,000 employees and contractors, was the seventh-largest employer in RTP last year.
Heads of other federal agencies will also visit schools and a handful of other facilities, mainly on the East Coast, to speak to Americans about the president's address.
The "My Education, My Future" address will be delivered at noon Tuesday at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. It will be simulcast at www.whitehouse.gov/live and on C-Span.
The U.S. Department of Education has prepared lists of suggested classroom activities to be conducted in conjunction with the speech. Links to the resources and other information about the speech are available at www.whitehouse.gov/mediaresources.
-- Matthew E. Milliken
