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    "id": 1048528,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "are designing a classroom meant for ECDE, it should not be the same design as a classroom for basic education, primary education or TIVET. The way you design a TIVET classroom and an ECDE classroom, there must be a distinction. Most of our governors do not understand this. It is more of also psychological support of the child when they are learning in a specific environment. Fourthly, I agree with my colleagues. What happens when we have come up with resolutions? It is good that the Senate Minority Leader is here. There are many reports that this House has resolved to adopt. I know that you gave us direction, and I do not want to go there. Who follows up on implementation? If we agree on this Motion of ring- fencing 10 per cent of the budget today, do we have a Committee set to follow up on this? I know that we had proposed this at some point, but it was not well thought-out, or your office decided otherwise. Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope you or the Senate Minority Leader can take up this matter with the Senate Business Committee (SBC), because there are many resolutions that we make as a House that no one follows up on. There are many reports that we have brought in the House, all the way from the Report on the Solai Dam incident. How do we go about it, so that the Senate does not make resolutions, and then we leave them high and dry? Madam Temporary Speaker, let us look at how the Senate can adopt these reports and resolve them. I know that according to the Basic Education Statistical Booklet of 2016, the then Minister of Education released a report that we had 180,000 plus Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) learners. I think that is the issue. As we move to the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), we want to create a friendly environment for our ECDE learners. As we implement the CBC, we must also have a discussion with the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD). Madam Temporary Speaker, you remember the KICD Act and the Basic Education Act. I remember that there was an uproar when the publishers approved some books that were being used in pre-school and ECDE centers, whether you want to call it a Montessori type of education, with some of the things that were being shared at the lowest level. There was an outcry that the KICD should give us a right and guided ECDE and CBC learning. We need to agree that even as we ring fence this budget--- I hope that my sister, Sen. (Dr.) Milgo, the Chairperson of the Committee on Education is noting these concerns. As we discuss, we must agree on the aspect of the curriculum that we want to roll out in ECDE centres, in putting into action Article 53 of the Constitution of Kenya. This is so that we do not have KICD releasing curriculum---"
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