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Education data to empower parents, pupils, educators & build accountability Data-driven education journalism Data is key to understanding the state of education in South Africa but the data that is available often isn’t easy to access or make sense of. Pas*mark’s aim is to create a clearer picture of the state of our schools by collecting the data that’s out there and presenting it in ways that make it useful to parents, pupils, educators and anybody else who has an interest in education. We believe that quality data leads to de*per insight, so we will also make the data we collect available for others to use. 571 South African public schools have no electricity supply. November 2016 What is an acceptable school? On 29 November 2013 the Regulations Relating to Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure were signed by the minister of education. These standards define what a public school should look like. They include what a school should be made of, what basic services it should have, the maximum number of learners in a clas*, what sports facilities, laboratories, and security it should have. The regulations also set deadlines for achieving these 66 South African public schools have no sanitation facilities. November 2016 South Africa's Deadly School Toilets Two young children have died after falling into pit toilets at their schools. Pit toilets are not allowed in schools, yet one in three of South Africa's public schools has one. Pas*mark looked at publicly available data to get a clearer picture of the state our schools' toilets. Slowly, slowly South Africa’s unsafe schools are being replaced One of the things President Cyril Ramaphosa listed as an achievement in his 2018 State of the Nation address was that “at least 187” ASIDI schools have been completed by the Department of Basic The Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Development Iniative (ASIDI) was launched in 2011 with the aim of bringing basic services to