By David Muchunguh More by this AuthorBy Faith Nyamai More by this AuthorThe government plans to pump up to Sh1.6 billion into public schools in the next two months ahead of their scheduled reopening in January. Low retention rateAdvertisementIt targets 7,852 public primary and 2,147 public secondary schools, which were identified based on high incidence of poverty and low retention rate. They also looked at the number of primary schools and low transition rate to secondary institutions. Many public primary schools are in poor condition, with some lacking electricity. “There was also considerable variation in the absolute number of students per toilet in both primary schools and secondary schools,” says the report.

Source: Daily Nation August 24, 2020 07:33 UTC