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Crisis looms as state delays to release JSS capitation

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Junior Secondary school teachers in Nakuru on a peaceful demonstration in Nakuru City on May 13, 2024, urging the government to employ them under permanent terms. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) woes have deepened with the government yet to release capitation funds for the second term, three weeks after institutions reopened.

Learning in public schools has been paralysed for three weeks after JSS intern teachers downed tools to demand permanent and pensionable terms.

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