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We welcome the nomination of Ambassador Samantha Power as USAID Administrator, and look forward to working together to build back better in light of COVID19 and ensure peace, human rights and inclusive education for all.

GCE-US condemns the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Washington, D.C., December 21, 2020 – The Global Campaign for Education-US (GCE-US) commends Congress for voting to fund international basic education at $950 million for Fiscal Year 2021.

Joint statement on the Reaching the most marginalized: a human right to inclusive education forum hosted by Education Cannot Wait, the Government of Norway, the Global Campaign for Education, Special Olympics, International Disability Alliance, International Disabilities and Development Consortium, and the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies.

The global education community thanks Congresswoman Nita Lowey for her lifelong leadership and legacy of improving education around the world.

October 6, 2020 -- GCE-US calls on the IMF to immediately stop promoting austerity around the world, and instead advocate policies that advance gender justice, reduce inequality, and decisively put people and planet first.

Read statement thanking US State Department's Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) for announcing a $5 million contribution to Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the first global, multilateral fund for education in emergencies

Washington, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs recommended that international basic education be funded at $975 million for the coming fiscal year (FY 2021) and an additional $150 million in emergency COVID-19 funding to support basic and higher education needs during the pandemic.

Read GCE's statement regarding the Black Lives Matter Movement and the actions that will be taken against racism.

Civil society organizations applaud the International Finance Corporation's decision to move away from for-profit education investments. The World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has set a new precedent in upholding the right to education in an official commitment to freeze investments in private for-profit pre-primary, primary, and secondary (also called “K-12”) schools. The signatory organizations applaud this landmark decision by the IFC, which responds to the concerns voiced by civil society about the effects on segregation and exclusion, inadequate education quality, avoidance of standards and regulations, poor labour conditions, and profit-seeking behavior of commercial schools.