{"id":24063,"date":"2011-12-30T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T07:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/schools-warned-against-collection-of-illegal-levies\/"},"modified":"2011-12-30T07:50:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T07:50:01","slug":"schools-warned-against-collection-of-illegal-levies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/30\/schools-warned-against-collection-of-illegal-levies\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools warned against collection of illegal levies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/general-news\/\" title=\"View all posts in General News\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a> \u00bb Schools warned against collection of illegal levies<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Friday, December 30, 2011 7:07 AM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2624Pupils.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27616\" title=\"Pupils\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2624Pupils.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Mr. Stephen Bekoe, Assembly member for Anum Apapam North Electoral Area, in the Eastern Region, on Thursday cautioned schools against the collection of illegal levies from pupils and students.<\/p>\n<p>He said despite the policy of free tuition at basic schools level, some educational institutions charged levies to raise funds for repairs of infrastructure, culture and sporting activities.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bekoe was addressing some school heads at Obuoho near Anum Apapam in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District. He said this could deter some parents, particularly those from the poor farming communities, from sending their children to school.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that some school authorities under the cover of the Parent-Teacher Association, charged levies contrary to directives.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly member advised parents to provide children with basic educational needs such as pencils, pens, school uniforms, bags and exercise books, adding that parents should not hide behind the Capitation Grant to shirk their responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb General News \u00bb Schools warned against collection of illegal levies Page last updated at Friday, December 30, 2011 7:07 AM \/\/ Mr. Stephen Bekoe, Assembly member for Anum Apapam North Electoral Area, in the Eastern Region, on Thursday cautioned schools against the collection of illegal levies from pupils and students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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