{"id":7899,"date":"2026-01-06T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/7899\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:19:07","slug":"back-to-school-grade-10-textbook-printing-to-start-after-sh5-64bn-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/7899\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school: Grade 10 textbook printing to start after Sh5.64bn release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KsXdnmAizcujlAE2urTueurojjpODcTpXqGmdS0W.jpg\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nA Grade 3 pupil at Xaverian Primary school in Kisumu on September 17, 2019. [File, Standard]&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">The Ministry of Education has released Sh5.64 billion to the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) to support the printing and nationwide distribution of Grade 10 textbooks for public schools.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>The funding release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/education\/article\/2001530062\/why-sh3-billion-debt-puts-grade-10-textbook-distribution-at-risk#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was confirmed <\/a>during a joint meeting between KICD and the Kenya Publishers Association (KPA) held on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, to agree on logistics and timelines for production and delivery of the textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Unlock the Full Story \u2014 Join Thousands of Informed Kenyans Today\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va0PRAYGk1Fo4ODHAg0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Follow The Standard<br \/>\n                                    channel<br \/>\n                                    on WhatsApp<\/a><br \/>\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A Grade 3 pupil at Xaverian Primary school in Kisumu on September 17, 2019. [File, Standard]&#13; The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5524,5522,5523,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-7899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-education-funding","9":"tag-grade-10-textbooksgrade-10-curriculum","10":"tag-grade-10-transition","11":"tag-kenya"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}