Looks like the U.S. Department of Education is in a time warp

Kids cannot focus on learning if they’re hungry or worrying about where they’ll sleep that night.
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, child poverty rates have plummeted, and kids can simply focus on being kids.

— Secretary Miguel Cardona (@SecCardona) October 30, 2023

...child poverty rates HAD plummeted, Mr. Secretary, but that is no longer the case: 

Child poverty more than doubled last year:

The poverty rate among children saw a sizeable increase, more than doubling from 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% last year, census data shows.

Why?

 The increase in the child poverty rate comes after the child tax credit expansion ended on Dec. 31, 2021.

(Thus no, it hadn't fallen due to ARP funding.)

And children being hungry? 

 more than 13 million children experiencing food insecurity, a jump of nearly 45 percent from 2021

It's pretty exhausting to have the people who are supposed to be on team "let's make sure kids have what they need to learn" get both their facts and their causation wrong.