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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbeere North, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ruku G.K.",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to thank the Members who have supported this Motion. The Motion is of national importance as far as the education sector is concerned. They have agreed on the challenges the education sector is facing, especially in junior secondary education, such as inadequate infrastructure, inadequate teacher training, limited access to technology, lack of parental and community involvement, over-burdening the parent and curriculum overload. It is important to have a way forward on ensuring that the competency-based curriculum JSS is well implemented by implementing a comprehensive framework of curriculum development, ensuring there are enough teachers at junior secondary schools who are well-trained and competent, having enough learning resources in our schools and a proper monitoring and evaluation framework. We must ensure that there is involvement of parents and the community. As Members of this House have said, we need to have a legal framework. In future - I will take this up - there will be a need to amend the Education Act, 2012 to ensure the assessment and evaluation of education is well done. Of importance is that the funding of the JSS has been considered well by the Government so that there is sustainability and good governance, and access to curriculum support materials and pedagogical approaches. We will also need to look at the public-private partnerships in implementing this framework and cushion equity in education, especially in arid and semi-arid areas and for the people living with disabilities. I beg to reply."
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