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    "id": 304666,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the criterion that we used to pick those schools are the same ones that were used to pick the rest of the schools across the country. There were no special criteria used to pick those schools. However, generally, we followed this criterion across the country. Each school that was to be selected had to have consistency in academic performance at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) for the last five years with a mean grade of C+. The second criterion is the accessibility and availability of physical facilities in the school; that is classrooms, dormitories and sanitation facilities. We were also looking at the geographical spread within the counties. Affirmative action was also applied whereby schools which are in the Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) areas but could not meet the mean grade of C+ were considered. Those were the criteria used, but there was a meeting in which the District Education Boards (DEB), Parents Teachers Organizations (PTAs), Boards of Governors (BOGs), sponsors and stakeholders were called at the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE) last year on 16th May and 9th August to discuss and agree on the schools that were selected. So, this was not done by the Ministry alone. Several people were involved and they agreed on the schools which were selected across the country including the two schools the hon. Member has talked about."
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