Efforts of the CMP’s community mobilization team working closely with the schools and School Management Committees (SMCs) to get enrollments up in SBEP targeted schools have delivered. More than 17,300 children including 7,251 girls and 10,085 boys got enrolled in CMP’s 400 targeted schools during program’s first 15 months. This refreshing achievement of a focused enrollment campaign has its own challenges. Imbalance in the student teacher ratio began adversely affecting teaching, learning conditions in the program target areas. SMCs of the CMP schools in District Khairpur began voicing concern over increasing shortage of teachers in the...