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The Global Campaign for Education-U.S. Chapter, a broad-based coalition of over 80 members dedicated to ensuring universal quality education for all children, expresses its serious concerns over the lack of access to education and learning in crisis and conflict settings, and calls on the U.S. Government to increase its financial and political support to address this issue.

Friday, Global Campaign for Education-US Chapter and more than 30 of its coalition members have called on President Barack Obama to #pledge4kids at the June Global Partnership for Education Pledging Conference for the 2015-2018 period. In the letter, also sent to Secretary of State John Kerry and USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah, the signatories ask for the U.S. government to make a 2 year $250 million pledge to help support the work that the Global Partnership for Education is doing to ensure quality education for all children around the world.

The Global Campaign for Education-US Chapter echoes Representative Nita Lowey’s vocal disappointment in the recent US Agency for International Development (USAID) FY15 Budget request for basic education.

Today, the Global Campaign for Education-US Chapter congratulates the U.S. on becoming a U.N. Global Education First Initiative Champion.

Today, the Global Campaign for Education-US Chapter launched a revamped Lesson For All (LFA)which contains three modules, History/Geography, Economics and Government, of nine lessons focused on teaching U.S. students about the right to an education for all and the barriers that many young people around the world encounter when trying to go to school.

Today, the Global Campaign for Education-US applauds the Congressional leadership of Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Congressman David Reichert (R-WA) for the stand they have taken for the 57 million children of primary school age around the world who are out of school.

Today, the Global Campaign for Education-US Chapter (GCE-US) announces Global Action Week 2013. Global Action Week highlights activities around the world that advocate for the urgent need for universal quality education.

Today, the Global Campaign for Education-US Chapter launched the revamped Lesson For All (LFA) which is two units of 8 lessons plans focused on teaching U.S. students about the right to an education for all and the barriers that many young people around the world encounter when trying to go to school.

Today, the Global Campaign for Education-US Chapter released a policy paper titled, “Total Reach, Total Learning: Education Beyond 2015,” a reasoned presentation of what GCE-US and its coalition members believe the future education Millennium Development Goal (MDG) should look like and account for when the current MDGs(http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/) expire in 2015.

In an effort to continue to raise the profile of the need of comprehensive national and international plans to facilitate and foster Education for All, the Global Campaign for Education-US Chapter with coalition member, The Nobelity Project, is sponsoring a screening of the film “Building Hope” at the Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street, NYC on February 5, 2013.