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    "id": 601549,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Injendi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2214,
        "legal_name": "Moses Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": "making difficult. When a school has a problem, it has to bring it to the County Education Board, skipping the district level, within which the school exists. Looking at this Act, I do not know the intention of the persons making it. In Kenya, the church has played a big role in establishing schools. The new Act completely excludes the church from the functions of schools. Therefore, partly, these amendments seek to ensure that the position of the church is restored in terms of spiritual nourishment and decision-making. The church will also be involved in the appointment of principals and headmasters of schools, in consultation with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Hon. Deputy Speaker, we also realised that many of our bright students miss opportunities to join national, provincial and county schools. In this Act, we want to ensure that anyone who meets the criteria for joining national, provincial or sub-county schools is given a chance to join that particular school. This will ensure that our bright students get the kind of education that is right for them. On the membership of the school boards of management, the Act talks of election of six members by parents. That is not clear. Who conducts the elections? The issue of six members constituting the board is also not clear. Are the six members going to be parents who have students in the school, or are they going to be elected by parents irrespective of whether they have children or not in the school? Who ensures valid outcome of the elections? The proposed amendments will partly make these issues very clear. The formation of BOMs in our schools has been a challenge because of this problem. Six members is a big number. We are proposing to reduce the number to four members. I have been a chairman of a school board. According to the Act, the membership of the board must include a teacher elected by fellow teachers. That means the principal cannot be a member of the board. These amendments also seek to ensure that school principals automatically become board members and secretaries of their respective boards. The new Act has come up with the New Kenya National Parents Association. I do not know how I can term that new association. Before it even gained ground in the system, we realised that these people were collecting a lot of money and not representing parents as expected. We would like to amend this Act to have what we had before: the Parents/Teachers Associations. There are many other amendments which I have not mentioned, but hon. Members can look at them and give their input. With those remarks, I beg to I second."
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