Keeping Girls in School Act

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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Version 00 · 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.

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Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] · D–NH

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Foreign Relations Committee

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Jun 24, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Jun 24, 2021
Introduced in Senate

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HR 4134 · Keeping Girls in School Act

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