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    "content": "There is also the development and financing of special needs education. As I had earlier said, the greatest challenge that we discovered in the Committee on Education as we were going around these particular special needs education centers is financing. We realized that the existing centers have very poor structures meant for formal and informal education for able people. What is lacking is financing. These schools are not well financed. The county governments are not aware if it is their responsibility to finance the special needs institutions. The national Government is also not ready to provide financing to those institutions. A directorate should be created to deal with matters of management and financing of special needs institutions in our country. Funding special needs education institutions makes me so happy. This Bill has stated and demonstrated in a very robust way an effective financing structure of this particular institution. Of great interest, is to make sure that they are up to standard and of high quality. I am very happy that quality assurance and standards of special needs education is also provided for in this Bill. Without a directorate or a department of quality assurance, things will not move on with special regards to the standards that are required. To arrive at international standards in the provision of special needs education, this particular department is very important. The measure of a civilized society can be seen in how a Government handles special interest like when it comes to cognizance of gender, children and more so, people with special needs. I support this Bill. That is why I had to take time this afternoon, to make sure that I stand in this House and say that this is a very important Bill, that will support the development and educational growth of children with special needs. I ask our brothers in the National Assembly to make sure that such important Bills are given special time. We should handle them with a lot of decorum, so that within a very short time, they are finished and become Acts of Parliament to support people in this country. Another Bill that we had started in the Committee on Education was on the County Vocational Education and Training Centers. Yesterday I read in The Daily Nation newspaper - I was shocked - that 3.1 million people in this country do not have academic qualifications. The only way we can support these people to get skills that will enable them to work effectively and earn their living is provided in that Bill. This is because it emphasizes on skill based education not examination based education. I hear that the Bill is in the National Assembly. I request them to speed up the progress of that Bill. These are some of the issues that will enable our country develop. I support this Bill and congratulate the two sponsors."
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