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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I wish to present a public petition by the Kenya Education Assessment and Resource Centres (EARC) Association on the challenges of educational assessment and resource services. I, the undersigned, on behalf of citizens of Kenya, and in particular education assessors of the educational assessment and resource centres, draw the attention of the House to the following;- (i) THAT, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has failed to transfer the special needs education top-up funds to special schools and units in schools for children. Schools have not received special needs education top-up funds since 2010, hence children with special needs fail to get adequate and quality education. (ii) THAT, the assessors’ special allowance has been scrapped off the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) since January, 2006. This allowance was paid to the assessors, who are professionally trained special needs teachers. (iii) THAT, the assessors are professionally trained special needs teachers employed by the TSC, yet the educational assessment is a function of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. This has brought misunderstanding in their terms of service in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the TSC. (iv) THAT, the educational assessors lack facilities and equipment to conduct the educational assessment of the special needs children and also inadequate personnel to address issues that may arise in assessment of special needs children. (v) Further that the issues in respect of which this Petition is made are not pending before any court of law or any constitutional or legal body. Therefore, your humble Petitioners pray that Parliament, through the Departmental Committees on Education, Research and Technology, obtain without delay an undertaking from the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the education, science and technology that:- 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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