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    "id": 328686,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 47,
        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "We are proposing to have a National Board of Education and County Education Boards. Hon. Members, please, look at these clauses and tell us whether they reflect what you had in mind in giving this beautiful country the new Constitution, so that it is inclusive. I am quite open to proposals. We also have Boards of Management to replace Boards of Governors. Each Member of Parliament has challenges in his constituencies. Please, bring all these together so that you can inform this Bill with the quality that we are looking for. In Clause 47 we have touched on the establishment of private education and institutions. Education in many countries is an invisible export that generates huge sums of money. This country is spending huge sums of money in other countries including our neighbor, Uganda, India, USA, and UK. The time has come to create the climate and take advantage of the quality governance of this country in investing in education. Therefore, I want to ask hon. Members to look at this scheme that I have come up with so that you fertilizer it and improve it, so that even Americans can start sending their children to Kenya. There is the Quality Assurance Commission. You will find this at Clause 63 onwards. Above all, I am proud to present Special Needs Education as a component of our education, and it is essential that all hon. Members look at this because God is the one who makes us. He decides whether you will have five fingers or four. No Kenyan can be discriminated against because they have three fingers. For purposes of education, I am seeking the approval of this House to this very important law so that Special Needs Education is dealt with. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have also addressed Early Childhood Education (ECE), so that this, for once, is not misunderstood. Allow me to refer Members to the schedules. They are also very important because they all create certain aspects of the law that you might wish for. Finally, it is the issue of the definition of a school. The existing Act is so wanting because it only says that so long as you have at least 10 children you can be described as a school. I am proposing to this country that that policy must be retired and we redefine “school” the way I have proposed. We want to listen with a very keen ear to all hon. Members, so that you can give many ideas. This is because I am not totally satisfied that I have come up with a satisfactory approach to these so-called informal schools in slums and such areas. Our children are all equal and they must, therefore, be treated equally. With those far too many remarks, and I know how much you love education, I beg to move. My good learned friend, hon. Abwabu Namwamba has kindly agreed to second."
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