Dale Kildee: “By working together, we can ensure that the educational needs of both boys and girls are met in the 1999 reauthorization…”

Current law lacks assurances that federal education programs will compensate for girls' different learning styles and different exposures to technology.

The Girls Act responds to findings in the 1998 AAUW Educational Foundation Report, Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children, which identified a number of areas where the educational needs of girls are still unmet.

We need to dismantle the virtual ceiling now, before it becomes a real-life barrier to girls' futures.

Education is the means for all girls, including pregnant and parenting teens, to achieve economic self-sufficiency.