Panama will be sending more than 500 teachers and students from the Juan Demóstenes Arosemena Superior Normal School in Veraguas to study English in the United States. The trips are part of the "Bilingual Panama" program, which aims to improve the level of English in the Panamanian education system. The government plans on spending $135.4 million on the program in the next five years, including $7.6 million on the first phase. The goal of the program is, eventually, to train 10,000 English teachers