Keeping Girls in School Act
- Last Action
- 6/24/2021
Actions
- 2021-06-24Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- 2021-06-24Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-06-24 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (3)
- Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
- Susan Collins (R-ME)
- Rob Portman (R-OH)
Subjects
- Child health
- Child safety and welfare
- Congressional oversight
- Disability and paralysis
- Educational technology and distance education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Marriage and family status
- Nutrition and diet
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Religion
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- Women's education
- Women's health
- Women's rights
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