Whereas access to quality education reduces poverty, advances economic prosperity, improves peace and security, and strengthens public health; Whereas the 2016 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, the globally recognized annual accountability tool on the status of education internationally, found that an estimated 263,000,000 children and youth are out of school worldwide, with girls still more likely to be out of school than their male peers in most of the developing world; Whereas a 2015 GEM Report found that two-thirds of the world’s out-of-school children live in countries affected by fragility and conflict; Whereas the 2011 World Health Organization’s World Report on Disability has found an estimated 90 percent of children with disabilities under age 18 in the developing world do not attend school; Whereas a 2012 GEM Report found that 250,000,000 primary schoolchildren are failing to learn basic literacy and numeracy skills, 130,000,000 of whom have attended at least 4 years of school; Whereas a 2011 GEM Report found that educating all students in low-income countries with basic reading skills could lead to 171,000,000 people lifted out of poverty, a 12 percent drop in global poverty; Whereas a 1999 World Bank study on conflict found every year of school decreases the chance of male youth engaging in violent conflict by 20 percent; Whereas a 2011 GEM Report found an educated mother is more likely to have her children vaccinated, and girls in school are three times less likely to be infected with HIV than their peers who are not in school; 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