Keeping Girls in School Act
United States117th CongressS-2276Senate
Updated: Jun 24, 2021
Summary
Keeping Girls in School Act This bill authorizes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to enter into agreements to address social, cultural, health, and other barriers that adolescent girls face in accessing quality secondary education. The USAID shall seek to ensure that such activities meet various requirements related to monitoring and evaluating outcomes, collecting data, and using specified indicators and methodologies for international basic education. The Department of State shall periodically update and report to Congress a publicly available U.S. global strategy to empower adolescent girls, and the USAID shall periodically report to Congress on the activities initiated under this bill and efforts to monitor and evaluate such activities.
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HR-4134: Keeping Girls in School ActOrdered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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