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    "content": "Therefore, the CS in charge of education should enforce the regulations. Once you have the school fees guidelines, it should be made a criminal offence and headteachers must be held liable if they go beyond the provided guidelines in terms of school fees that they charge. Otherwise, schools will hike their school fees knowing that the Government will sort them out and before you realise, you will have a very huge bill to be paid by the national Government. Therefore, resources that should have gone to supporting schools in terms of infrastructure ends up being used to pay the school fees balances to support some of the students. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about the role of the sponsor in our schools. Many sponsors have helped in developing the infrastructural facilities within our schools. However, their role has been a little bit limited when it comes to curriculum development. Therefore, I support this Bill in so far as giving the mandate and the opportunity to sponsors to contribute towards the curriculum development. However, we need to ensure that these schools are not run by sponsors. The sponsors must be able to contribute but they should allow the professional management of schools to do their work because we have seen very many schools drop in terms of performance because of the wrangles caused by conflicting positions from sponsors. I think the sponsors’ role should be limited to support in terms of infrastructure and curriculum development but then the responsibility of running and managing a school should be left to the professional team. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know that there will be several amendments that will need to be done on this particular Bill to ensure that a number of the concerns like the ones raised by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and others are incorporated in this Bill. Once this Bill is passed by this House and the “Lower House”, it should streamline the running of our public and private schools within the basic education sector and ensure that the constitutional design and objective of ensuring that every child accesses basic education is realised. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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