President William Ruto sharing a meal with pupils at Roysambu Primary School during the launch of the Nairobi School Feeding Programme on June 20, 2023. The government plans to construct 5,000 classrooms in Nairobi as part of efforts to keep children in schools. “The number of children staying out of school is on an alarming rise, and there is a need to tame the looming crisis,” Ruto said. Concerningly, the majority of these out-of-school children came from households where the heads had no formal education. Despite the decline in private school enrolment, the report found that children in private schools achieved better learning outcomes than their peers in public schools, particularly in English literacy and numeracy.

Source: Daily Nation October 13, 2024 18:51 UTC