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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "We also want to ensure that the CS puts measures in place to ensure that students who are ranked in the first quarter by constituency in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination and are admitted to a public secondary school, but fail to complete education due to inability to pay school fees are supported to complete their secondary school education. Hon. Kang’ata is seated next to me. He came to the Committee and we had this discussion. This was warranted because of the many students who join Form One and do not complete their education. We also seek to amend the composition of the board of management. The number was huge. We had many people representing one body like the sponsors. So, we decided to amend that. In the same Bill, we have the Parents Teachers Association and a body called the National Parents Association. The latter is already going through our schools asking for money from the headteachers. It purports to be a national parents’ body. As a Committee, we saw this as a duplication of duties. We already have the Parents/Teachers Association. So, we seek to remove the National Parents Association and maintain the initial Parents/Teachers Association that has been there before. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we also seek to amend the Act to ensure that the curriculum, which is developed or approved for basic education in Kenya, is examined by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC). All public examinations should be conducted as provided for by the KNEC Act only in institutions of basic education, whose curriculum is registered by the KNEC. We have some of the schools that have come in, but have not been approved by the Ministry of Education. As a result of that, students do not sit for the Standard Eight national examination. I would like to urge the hon. Members of this House to support the Committee to ensure that our schools and students are well taken care of. It is a right of every child in this nation to access education and, therefore, we should ensure that children not only access education, but quality education. I would like to ask Hon. Injendi to second. I can see that Hon. Kang’ata is agitated but he can contribute after the Bill has been seconded."
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