Dale Kildee: “Current law lacks assurances that federal education programs will compensate for girls' different learning styles and…”

By working together, we can ensure that the educational needs of both boys and girls are met in the 1999 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Sexual harassment is widespread and affects female students at all levels of education, including those in elementary and secondary schools.

I am pleased to introduce The Educating America's Girls Act of 1999, or the Girls Act, along with Representatives Nancy Johnson, William Clay, Connie Morella, Lynn Woolsey, and many of my other colleagues today.

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.