Parents decry cost of stationery as schools reopen for first term

Traders selling ream papers outside Nyambaria National School, April 25, 2022. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]

Parents were yesterday confounded by the high cost of learning materials as schools opened for first term.

They now want the government to cushion them from extra school levies charged in secondary schools.

Homa Bay National Parents Association chairman Julius Omuga said some secondary school principals had imposed too many levies on parents.