; Whereas the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is the only public-private global partnership exclusively dedicated to education in the world’s poorest countries; Whereas GPE eligible countries are home to approximately 870,000,000 children and youth, which represent 78 percent of out-of-school children; Whereas GPE support resulted in 72,000,000 more children in primary school in 2015 than in 2002 and a 10 percent increase in primary school completion over that same period in GPE partner countries; Whereas GPE support to partner countries has achieved a 71 percent primary completion rate for girls in 2014 compared with 56 percent in 2002; Whereas 60 percent of GPE’s spending is in countries affected by conflict or fragility and helped these countries to increase their primary school completion rates from 56 percent in 2000 to 69 percent in 2015; Whereas GPE incentivizes developing country governments to increase their own domestic financing for education, which has resulted in partner countries pledging $26,000,000,000 for their own domestic financing during GPE’s 2014 replenishment conference; Whereas support for GPE complements the United States Government’s bilateral basic education programs by fostering coordination among all key partners, ensuring the development of national education sector plans, and building on the commitment of developing country governments; Whereas, on April 20, 2017, GPE called on donors and developing country partners to fund a $3,100,000,000, three-year plan to support 89 developing countries in improving the quality of and access to education for 870,000,000 children and youth and provide education plan implementation grants to 67 developing countries, covering 64 percent of out-of-school children; Whereas GPE is urging developing country governments to allocate 20 percent of government expenditure to education and philanthropic and private sector donors to increase their contributions