City schools not to admit learners beyond 5KM

According to the policy directive enshrined in the National Development Plan Four (NDP IV), learners in day schools will have a limit of the journey within which they can go to school. 

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School children being ferried back home from school on a bodaboda. Government wants all-day scholars in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools to study in schools within a distance of not more than 5km from their areas of residence. (Credit: Eddie Ssejjoba)

Martin Kitubi

Journalist @New Vision