; provided education materials and textbooks to over 4,200,000 children; strengthened equity and gender equality by reaching 3,300,000 girls; supported the training of 87,367 teachers and administrators; doubled the number of teachers trained on mental health and psychosocial support; and developed 24 Multi-Year Resilience Programs and disbursed 199 First Emergency Response grants; Whereas the United States has been central to the success of ECW, as the third largest donor to ECW currently, and continued support will be critical if ECW is to meet its 2023–2026 Strategic Plan goals; Whereas the private sector is an important partner to USAID and the Department of State in reaching international education goals as evidenced by a 2019 joint pledge of $12,500,000 to Education Cannot Wait by LEGO Foundation to bring quality learning experiences to children in emergency situations; Whereas the United States Government has long been a leader in global education and has made global commitments to improve access to education and learning for at least 15,000,000 girls globally by 2025; Whereas the United States has also endorsed the Commitment to Action on Foundational Learning as developed with World Bank, UNICEF, and USAID during the 2022 United Nations Transforming Education Summit, committing to taking urgent and decisive action to ensure all children develop the foundational skills needed to reduce the global share of children unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10, by half, by 2030; Whereas USAID made 16 commitments to be achieved by 2026 at the Global Disability Summit, including commitments to promote disability-inclusive education, strengthen disability data for education programming, promote the Universal Design for Learning approach in all new education programs, and increase disability-inclusive initiatives at all levels of education, from preprimary through higher education programming