Sec. 1404. Basic education assistance
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The Administrator is authorized to use funds made available under section 1015 for basic education in accordance with the goal and objectives of this chapter. Assistance authorized under subsection
(a)shall include— increasing the supply of trained quality teachers, and building systems for the continuing support, training and professional development of all educators; developing and implementing effective, relevant curricula; building the institutional capacity of a country to manage basic education systems and measure results; increasing parent and community involvement in schools; providing learning materials; working with communities to achieve equity in schools and address gender norms to build support for girls’ education; promoting the development and effective use of systems for data collection, monitoring and evaluation of student-learning outcomes; improving and expanding educational infrastructure; reducing or eliminating fees for tuition, uniforms and school materials, as well as other barriers to school attendance, for poor and marginalized children; improving young children’s capacity to learn through early childhood development programs; supporting interventions that increase school attendance and performance, such as scholarships, school lunch, school health, and water and sanitation programs; ensuring that schools are not incubators for violent extremism; providing life skills training and civic education, including on human rights, gender equity, and conflict resolution; making schools safe and secure places for learning, free of violence, harassment, exploitation, or intimidation; increasing access to education, improving learning outcomes and increasing educational opportunities for the most disadvantaged populations; ensuring continuation or reestablishment of educational programs and the provision of safe spaces for children in areas of armed conflict or humanitarian crisis; increasing the relevance of formal education systems to the needs of the poor and to disaffected youth, through reform of curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methods, and improved teacher training; expanding vocational and entrepreneurship skills and opportunities, especially for out-of-school youth, in close linkage with the private sector and in response to market needs; supporting multilateral coordination and financing initiatives for education; and promoting the value of education and increasing community and family awareness of the positive impact of education. In this chapter, the term basic education means an education, generally consisting of completion of 9–10 years of schooling, including efforts to improve early childhood development, primary education, secondary education, literacy and numeracy training, and life-skills training that prepares an individual to be an active, productive member of society and the workforce.