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Truant teachers to blame for decline in KCPE performance in public schools, CS Fred Matiang’i

Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i

NAIROBI: Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has decried the decline in performance of Public Schools in the just released results for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).

In the results, public schools’ mean score declined by 7 points from 187.8 to 180.7 while that of private schools increased by a point from 229.4 to 230 in 2015.

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