The Keeping Girls in School Act directs the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote secondary education access for adolescent girls worldwide, particularly in countries where girls drop out at higher rates than boys. The legislation requires these agencies to develop and implement programs that address specific barriers girls face, including poverty, safety concerns, child marriage, lack of sanitation facilities, and discrimination. Within one year of enactment, the Secretary of State and USAID Administrator must update the U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls and submit it to Congress, with another update required five years later. The bill mandates rigorous monitoring and evaluation of all programs, with detailed reporting to Congress annually for the first year and then every two years for ten years, with results posted on a public USAID website.
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