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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi (",
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    "content": "Dagoretti North, ODM): Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Bill and thank Hon. Wamaua for bringing it at this critical time when we have the new Competency-Based-Curriculum (CBC) system. We need to streamline so many things that are bad in the Ministry of Education. I hope we shall see a change in the Ministry of Education. You cannot tell me people in the Ministry can be experts for 30-40 years. They should leave space to bring in new blood. That is what we want to see in the Ministry of Education. Having said that, I know there is something the Ministry of Education calls “sub-county education offices\" which have no powers. The people there wonder what they should do. It is time we completely change to what Hon. Wamaua has proposed. We now need to streamline the roles so that sub-county offices have more power because it is the office at the base where all schools are. You can find yourself running all over in a sub-county. Currently, each constituency is a sub-county, so we need the education boards. If there is anything that is taking us on a roller coaster that we do not understand, it is the education sector. We need to consult every time because of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). When I look at the whole structure, the board was supposed to advise the Cabinet Secretary. To date, I wonder where quality assurance is. What happened? Where is this team? We need it for the CBC, but the Ministry of Education at Jogoo House has decided to muzzle this completely. Therefore, we do not have anyone. Even as we cry about how private schools have built all their classrooms, we want to return to the same problem we had with the 8-4-4 System, where public schools are just public schools, yet when results come out, we see private schools taking over while public schools are not doing well. Why? This is because we have handed over the mistakes we made in the education and health sector 30 years ago. Those are the consequences we are facing. If you want to promote the standards of basic education, you need the Sub-County Education Boards because they can walk to any school daily and tell you where things are not working. A teacher can rush to ask how they can be supported. Sometimes there are very interesting boards. The other day, I looked at the terms of the board and realised we needed new teams to come to these schools. We need people who can embrace and properly operate the schools. You walk into a school and wonder about basic things. While sitting with the board, you ask yourself: Surely, does the school need to have this? You are the board. You are the team that needs to introduce better ideas and values to the school. You move it, the management takes it over, and thereafter, the teachers take it over. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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