The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that 99 double-track Senior High Schools have been taken off the system and restored to their traditional single track.

The GES noted that the Free SHS budget allocations have also been increased with a dedicated source of funding.

In a press release, signed by Daniel Fenyi, the Head of Public Relations, and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Monday, it said the government had paid GHC1 billion to the free secondary education programme and cleared all capitation grant arrears, costing GH¢72.8 million.

Also, GH¢2.9 billion had been paid to the Ghana Education Trust Fund, and GH¢122.8 million was paid for the Basic Education Certificate Examination registration.

“The School feeding budget increased per child, with GH¢895 million paid to the School Feeding Programme for basic schools,” the release added.

It said the Parent-Teacher Associations had been reactivated to improve school governance and promote discipline.

It noted that this year’s WASSCE practicals and feeding grant for special needs schools had all been paid.