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education


Liberia: Crisis in Rural Education Continues to End Children’s Dreams

In rural Liberia, Nancy Howard’s dream of journalism faded after 9th grade. With no local school, she turned to farming—now 25, a mother of three, working her family’s sugarcane field….

Siaway T. Mapue
FrontPage Africa

Bridge Accused Of Conflict Of Interest, Lack of Accountability Running Liberian Schools; Company Denies Allegations

A report accuses Bridge International Academies of financial opacity and conflicts of interest in Liberia’s education system. Former officials’ involvement sparks outrage as stakeholders demand audits, reforms, and greater transparency….

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

President’s School Chairs Arrive In Rural Schools, But There Aren’t Nearly Enough

In Buchanan’s overcrowded Four Houses Public School, kindergarteners like 7-year-old Sarah struggle to learn while seated on the floor, amidst dire shortages of chairs, tables, and a deteriorating classroom structure….

King Brown
News Public Trust

Liberia: As Schools Outsourcing Experiment Falters Teachers Say It’s Time to Give Counties Control

In part two of this two-part series with New Narratives Eric Opa Doue finds widespread opposition from teachers and civil society to government’s privatization of schools and a plea to government to abandon the scheme and let counties take charge….

Eric Opa Doue
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Students Dropping Out of School in Rivercess Due to Lack of Teachers

Jacob Beegar, 15, faces a grim future in Kporkon, Liberia, as the prolonged closure of his school since 2020 forces him to forsake education for farm labor, dimming his hopes of escaping poverty….

Eric Opa Doue
FrontPage Africa

Liberia Schools Crisis: Unfit Buildings and No Books Leave Children Behind

Cestos City – Twelve-year-old Baby Girl Yarkah is in the first grade and attends the Upper Timbo Community School in Little Liberia, Rivercess County. She shares a small chair with another girl because there are not enough seats to accommodate the school’s 200 students. The chairs have no arms. There are no desks at all….

By Mae Azango with photos by Chase Walker
Front Page Africa newspaper and website

Liberia Education Crisis: A 3-part series reveals schools in chaos

Cestos City – Students in Rivercess County are learning less than half of the curriculum each semester because of untrained teachers and a broken pay system that forces teachers to abandon schools for days, even weeks at a time. The first of a 3-part series on Liberia’s rural schools crisis by New Narratives fellow Mae…

By Mae Azango with photos by Chase Walker
FrontPage Africa in collaboration with New Narratives

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