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    "id": 862187,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to contribute to this Bill. From the outset, I support this Bill This Bill was processed by the Senate during the 11th Parliament and, unfortunately, it did not become an Act of Parliament. It is a clear Bill that tries to show that there is a framework for Early Childhood Development (ECD) education which is critical. In fact, this is part and parcel of the responsibility of county governments as enshrined in Article 4 of the Constitution. This Bill is very extensive. For a long time, most stakeholders in education and especially in early childhood education have been waiting anxiously for the passage of this Bill because it stipulates everything; from the right of a child to go into education to management boards, to processes and to details about the classroom. In the Committee on Education, we visited schools to establish whether some of these centers have been established within the counties as they are meant to do. In some counties, some of the schools have had very good ECD centers. In fact, some of these ECD centers are so good that we were told that some pupils do not want to proceed to primary school when they have graduated from pre-unit. However, there are some schools that have not met the standards, because they are not clear. This Bill sets those standards. It talks about how the classrooms should be, where the curriculum should come from and registration of centers which is very critical. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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