Hon Speaker, the National Education Evaluation and Development Unit of the Department of Basic Education recently sent out a team of evaluators with the specific task of evaluating the functionality of the selected 100 schools. The findings do not augur well for the achievement of the millennium goals of quality education and the elimination of illiteracy.
According to the report, many principals have abdicated their essential responsibilities. Some schools are functioning without principals because of teacher displacements for various reasons, and the districts remain the weakest points in the system.
We urge the Minister to take urgent and corrective measures, if the objective of quality education is to be achieved in our lifetime.