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No textbooks, lack of teachers dampen learning for pioneer Junior Secondary School students

Grade 7 learners at Migosi Primary School in Kisumu county after receiving textbooks from Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Pioneer Junior Secondary School (JSS) learners continue to grapple with a lack of enough teachers and textbooks in most public schools.

Unlike private schools, most public schools are yet to start teaching some of the subjects due to the failure of the Ministry of Education to distribute textbooks to the learning institutions.

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