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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to support the Senate Majority Leader in Clause 3 (1) (l) which it states that one of the functions of the County Education Board shall be to- “maintain a data bank of all students who are ranked in the first quartile of the constituency in the national examination and the primary level who due to inability to pay school fees fail to gain entry into or complete education in a public secondary school.” This is clearly speaking to the issue of ranking. If you are trying to discover who is in the first quartile in a constituency, it simply means that you will rank the schools in that constituency and by extension, in that county. It is, therefore, a case for us to reintroduce ranking in all our schools at the sub-location, location and ward levels up to the national level. I would like to further support the Senate Majority Leader in Clause 4, which speaks to the composition of the county education board. I want to beg the Senate Majority Leader to reflect. He says that the appointments shall be done by the Cabinet Secretary; I have no problem with that. The people under sub-clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) can well be appointed by the Cabinet Secretary, but he does not have the kind of information that other public officers at the county level have on possible suitable personalities to serve on this board. I want to propose that from (f) to (l) those appointees be appointed by the Cabinet Secretary after they have been nominated by the governor. This is because the governor is closer and is more likely to identify suitable people. Further, I would like to support the Senate Majority Leader in this Bill in Clause 4 by contributing something on sub-clause 3, on page 5, which speaks to the effect that all members of the county education board shall have a minimum qualification of secondary education certificate. Why would you want to have a pilot flying innocent passengers from Heathrow, for eight hours into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), when the qualifications of that pilot are perfect, but the qualifications of the other members of the crew on the aircraft are suspect? Education is a serious aircraft. In fact, it flies further than the distance between Heathrow to JKIA; it flies into the future. Therefore, I want to beg that a county cannot lack people with good education to sit on the county education board, to fly the children of that county to the highest destination that they can possibly achieve. Therefore, I want you to consider increasing the academic qualifications. The members who sit on the county education board should have good education, so that even when they stand to make a speech and they are introduced as members of the county education board, they will be women or men of golden letters who can be copied by the children. Therefore, I want to insist that unless under exceptional circumstances, where possible, these people should have a minimum of university education. If we are talking about a minimum of university education in Parliament, why can we not expect the same of people with a greater role on matters of education at the county education board? Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Bill in Clause 4, but want to make an addition to the membership. I believe that the composition is limited because an important person has been left out. I think the County Executive Committee (CEC) Member in charge of education must sit on this board, because he or she is an important person. They are the nexus for the resources from the county treasury to schools and programs. I have seen in this Bill a proviso that they shall be given a sitting allowance, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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