When schools reopen in January as planned, a good number of private schools will not open. The Kenya Private Schools Association (KPSA) on Sunday said that many schools face a cash crunch that is going to force them to shut down completely. Hundreds of thousands of employees working in private schools have been forced to take salary cuts, ordered to take unpaid leave or laid off. Some private schools are so crippled by debt that they run the risk of closing down or having their assets auctioned. While established private schools that have some cash reserves will weather the storm, newly founded schools and the unregistered ones especially in informal settlements might not survive.

Source: Daily Nation July 14, 2020 06:22 UTC