\u201cIn 2010 when we did a survey of schools under trees or substandard schools, there were 4,210 of them and we undertook the schools under trees programme and since then, we\u2019ve built more than 1,700 schools all over the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Mahama said government concedes that \u201cthere are still schools that are substandard and under trees and I never said anywhere that we\u2019ve replaced all the schools under trees with modern schools.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c…So sometimes when you see political quantity surveyors going around and showing a school under a tree, I\u2019ve never said we\u2019ve taken out all the schools under trees, we are taking them out and it is our expectation that by 2020 no Ghanaian child should be studying under a tree. I believe that all those political quantity surveyors if they had put in the same efforts we are putting in, by now we would have eliminated all schools under trees.\u201d<\/p>\n
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New strategy to eliminate schools under trees\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The President also explained that the strategy adopted by government will ensure that the infrastructure deficit in the educational sector is covered.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we have a strategy for doing it, we\u2019ve committed the 216 district assemblies to annually\u00a0from now to 2020, replace two schools under trees. Government is going to build another 1,000 schools to remove schools under trees,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n![\"mahama](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mahama-in-volta-festival1.png\")
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