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    "id": 17110,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwatela",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 103,
        "legal_name": "Andrew Calist Mwatela",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will be very brief. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a Statement with regard to the implementation status of the resolution of the House on 20th April 2011 on doubling and tripling of free secondary and primary education funds, respectively. I beg to give a report on the implementation status of the House resolution adopted on the 20th April 2011. While taking cognizance of the House resolution urging the Government to double the grant per child in secondary schools from Kshs10, 265 to Kshs20, 530 and that of primary schools from Kshs1, 020 to Kshs3, 060, I wish to report to this House that my Ministry on the 20th of January 2011 through a Gazette Notice No.1068 established a task force to align the education sector to the new Constitution. One of the key demands of the Constitution is the provision of free basic education to every child as a right. These provisions have financial implications of enormous levels. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the task force has been mandated to:- 1. Analyze the implication of the new Constitution on education and training for national development. 2. Review the education in relation to relevance, access, equity, quality and responsiveness to Vision 2030. 3. Review of investment in education, both public and private. In view of this, the task force was expected to submit to me feedback on priority areas that include financing of education at all levels and modalities for resource mobilization, to ensure the provision of free and compulsory basic education. The task force has undertaken a series of activities that include literature review on financing education, review of submissions from professional bodies on education issues, collection of views from the 47 counties and engaging consultants to inform the report. Mr. Speaker, Sir, already the zero draft has been presented to my Ministry for comments and the same has been sent back to the task force for polishing of the grey areas, particularly on the unit cost which must be informed by the prevailing market rates and inflationary trends. A final report will be submitted to my Ministry by 30th November 2011 and, thereafter, a national conference on education shall be held to ratify the policy document. That is the first Statement. The second Statement is much related to this one and it will take the same amount of time."
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