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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/662364/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sang",
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        "legal_name": "Leonard Kipkosgei Sang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I want to start by thanking Hon. Wamalwa for coming up with this very important Bill. For a long time, students have been doing the KCSE and KCPE and they have been ranked. It was very unfortunate when we learned that the former Cabinet Secretary for Education banned ranking without any public participation. It was very unfortunate because we have never been told what informed the banning of this ranking. I join my colleagues and friends in supporting Chris Wamalwa’s Bill because we want ranking to be brought back. It is a very good Bill because with structured ranking, schools that have infrastructure are going to be ranked differently from schools that have challenges with issues of infrastructure. It has been unfortunate. The ranking that was there previously was biased because schools like Alliance High School were being ranked the same with very small schools in our rural areas. It was very unfortunate. However, with the Amendment Bill that has been sponsored by Hon. Wamalwa, things will be sorted out and schools will be ranked according to their categories. Some schools have issues of infrastructure, shortage of teachers, security issues and other challenges. Once these issues are sorted out, things will improve. I thank the Government because it has done well so far on the issues of payment of examination fees for both KCPE and KCSE candidates. Students are no longer paying examination fees. For a long time, students from very poor backgrounds were unable to sit for those examinations because of challenges with examination fees. With the Government doing 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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