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New York • Hillary Rodham Clinton is announcing a new $600 million effort through the Clinton Foundation to help girls around the globe attend secondary schools.
The former secretary of state unveiled the plan Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative. The program is aimed at helping some 14 million girls typically between the ages of 11 and 16 to attend school. The initiative seeks to improve the quality, safety and security at schools.
While boys and girls tend to enroll in primary schools at similar rates, the foundation notes in sub-Saharan Africa, 1.5 million fewer girls than boys attend secondary schools.
The effort follows the kidnapping of dozens of girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Clinton is expected to announce by early next year whether she will seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.