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State has burdened parents and deserted teachers in hard times

By Wilson Sossion | 4yrs ago

Pupils in a makeshift classroom in Turkana County, December 2020. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Amid hard economic times and ‘big-budget’ Competency-Based-Curriculum (CBC), the State has burdened parents with unnecessary school levies and failed to address teachers’ professional and labour concerns.

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