Keeping Girls in School Act
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Jun 24, 2021)
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.
What just happenedJun 24, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateJun 24, 2021
- Jun 24, 2021IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Foreign Relations Committee - Jun 24, 2021IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate