Education Minister Fayval Williams
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Fayval Williams
Education Minister Fayval Williams has reported that more than 87,000 of the 120,000 students who did not attend classes during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic are now back in school.
Contributing to the Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon, Mrs Williams said $103 million had been spent on the Yard to Yard programme to find absent students.
"We have been able to re-engage approximately 87,446 of the 120,000 students we had indicated were not accounted for during the pandemic," she announced in the House.
Mrs Williams said the ministry is committed to finding every student and assured that "deans of discipline and our guidance officers will specifically redouble their efforts" to locate them.
At least one school principal has praised the Ministry of Education's Yard to Yard programme to find children who have not attended classes during the first two years of the pandemic.
Christopher Tyme, Principal of Mile Gully High School in Manchester, told Radio Jamaica News that of the 279 students who had not been engaged in classes at his school, only eight have not been located.
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