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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The first question relates to what Sen. Eddie has asked. This is about preparations on the admission to Grade 9, which the CS has handled very well. My question to the Cabinet Secretary is, what arrangements are there even as we gear towards 2026 when we are going to admit the first lot in the Senior Secondary School, which is Grade 10? I am asking this specifically in order for the Cabinet Secretary to let the House know because we know that there are going to be three pathways in secondary schools, as we know them today. There will be STEM, arts and sports and languages and business. So, the clarification that I am seeking is, will we have specific schools offering specific pathways or all schools in Grade 10 will offer all the three pathways? That is my first question. Number two, and which concerns me as Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Education, because people keep calling us, is from an appearance by the Permanent Secretary for Basic Education at the National Assembly, where he said that the Government or the Ministry is being forced to reduce capitation to secondary school students, which has stood above Kshs22,000. The PS reported that because of the growing numbers of students in secondary schools, the Ministry has been forced to reduce this to Kshs17, 000 for every student. My question is because we know that the allocation to the Ministry of Education was highest this year, that is, the budgetary allocation. Are there no internal mechanisms of seeing to it that we allocate more to capitation from whatever has been allocated, so that students continue receiving the Kshs22,000, if not more?"
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