The Basic Education Coalition applauds the House Foreign Affairs Committee for unanimously passing the Keeping Girls in School Act (H.R. 2153) out of the Committee today. The Coalition is thankful for the support of Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX) in advancing this important legislation and we urge House leadership to expeditiously take up and pass H.R. 2153.
The Keeping Girls in School Act, led by Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) and Rep. Susan Brooks (R-IN), has garnered 102 bipartisan cosponsors in the House of Representatives and has been endorsed by over 50 nongovernmental organizations. If enacted, the Keeping Girls in School Act would direct U.S. foreign assistance efforts to address the barriers that prevent adolescent girls from continuing and completing secondary education in countries where there’s a persistent gender disparity in educational attainment.
The Basic Education Coalition is a group of leading U.S.-based organizations and academic institutions working together to promote global peace and prosperity through education.