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    "id": 1162163,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1162163/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13174,
        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "What came out of this is that- (1) We established that recruitment of ECDE teachers is done by county governments from a pool of teachers registered by the TSC. The county governments are supposed to ensure that ECDE teachers recruitment policies are fully implemented. (2) There is an approved scheme of service, a detailed job description and a renumeration structure for all ECDE teachers. (3) Whereas the CoG issues advisory to county governments or implementation of ECDE teachers’ schemes of service, only eight county governments have fully implemented them and 16 are reported to be at the finalizing stage to bring on board all the teachers that are based on the scheme of service. While the three county governments have not initiated any process at all to implement ECDE teachers’ scheme of service, therefore, these 23 county governments are the ones that are paying ECDE teachers what I call a stipend. Some of them are paid by parents. When children go to school, they are send back home to bring Kshs5 or more to pay their ECDE teachers. (4) There are 42,457 ECDE teachers employed by the county governments. Out of which, only 13,502 are on permanent and pensionable terms while the remaining 28,955 are employed on contracts. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a third category of about 4,563 caregivers who are engaged and remunerated by school management boards or Parents Association (PA). The Committee further observed that there is more focus in terms of content and curriculum development on other levels of basic education by the Ministry of Education, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) and TSC at the expense of the Early Childhood Education (ECE). You realize that ECDE is the foundation of education. The Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) will be a nightmare for those children to be able to understand what is going on in the upper classes without a proper foundation in ECDE. The Committee also established that ECDE centres have relinquished their physical facilities such as classrooms for use by more primary schools leaving learners congested in one or two rooms and teachers without a staffroom, which complicates efforts to prepare and give lessons. Some of them are learning in makeshift classrooms. These are very little children. We are trying to change their mindset. We have to provide them with a conducive environment to make them understand that this country loves them, and education is a good thing. So, that when they join the upper classes in a seamless manner. However, we treat very little children badly. We discovered that some of the ECDE centres did not have wash materials and, therefore, the little children are just given a tiny classroom"
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