This essay seeks to emphasize the relationship in Kenya between primary education and politics, in the context of local control through elected County Councils over primary education. It looks at the costs of primary education, including political and social costs, in terms of their effects on local government and on the relationship between local…

If needed significant educational change is to be achieved, some countervailing power source capable of confronting administrative bureaucracy and making it conform to the present needs of the public must be established. Community control, the subdivision of the large system into appropriate communities and the control of each community by its…