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    "id": 44714,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Education",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "5. Community support – The willingness of the school management and communities and stakeholders to support the idea of the elevation of the school to a national status. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, I wish to inform hon. Members that the process of consultation and identification of schools by stakeholders is still ongoing. Further, I also wish to remind the hon. Members, that on 15th February, 2011, I appeared before the Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology and briefed them on my Ministry’s strategy, process and criteria to be used in upgrading the provincial schools into national schools. So far, the Ministerial technical team has held several meetings including one consultative meeting with the stakeholders of the proposed phase one schools which was held on 16th May, 2011 at the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE). The stakeholders included the Boards of Governors (BoGs), Parents-Teachers’ Association (PTAs), leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations like the Catholic Church, the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, African Inland Church, Friends Church, Church of God, Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Chief Kadhi. Finally, the process of identifying the schools would still continue and would be inclusive to guarantee stakeholders participation and ownership. Indeed, I want to assure Parliament that no gazettement would be done until we are fully satisfied that the upgrading of schools is in conformity with the criteria that I have already so far set and proper process must be followed in order to achieve greater acceptance by the community and at large scale in total. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the gazettement would include the list of schools and the schedule of implementation in a phased out format. It would appear in the current list of 30 that we may not have touched upon all the counties. That is because there was limitation of funds. It was proposed in the Budget that they would be getting only Kshs750 million and we thought it prudent to plough this money in increasing more spaces for form one admissions in view of the experiences that we had last year when we took an affirmative action, by expanding the existing 18 national schools for more spaces. Therefore, this list is not exhaustive. If anyone raises a serious objection, we have no intention as a Ministry to force any sponsor or any community to accept a national status until such time that we have all agreed that it is the way to go forward. Therefore, we will slot the next one on line until such time that we are able to reach a process which is acceptable to all of us."
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