The request was made after the cabinet accepted the proposal of the city education bureau. Addis Abeba has a total of 560 kindergartens, 465 elementary schools and 96 secondary schools. Among these 96 kindergartens, 106 elementary schools, and 14 secondary schools are public, all of which were confiscated after 1974 following the coming to power of the Derg regime.
These schools were established as public schools by a national law which, in today's political structure, is applicable at the federal level.
"Apart from Assai School and not more than 10 others, [public] schools are in very poor condition," said an official at the bureau.
The quality of education at these schools is very low, by the standards of other government schools in Addis Abeba due to lack of teachers and educational materials, according to the official.
Based on the proposal of the bureau, the City Cabinet has decided to improve the situation by bringing these public schools into its jurisdiction as government schools. But the bureau could not do that under the existing structure, as Dilamo Otore, bureau head, is said to have told the cabinet when he asked for a new city law that would allow his office to intervene, a cabinet member told Fortune anonymously.
The bureau wants to have these schools under it by the beginning of the next Ethiopian year and hopes that the bill will be produced and passed through the Council of Ministers and the House of People's Representatives to become a law before the parliament goes on its annual break after approving the budget for the 2010/11 fiscal year.
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