The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has said funds has not been released to all senior high schools as earlier promised by the government.

The various SHSs will open on September 11, 2017 but CHASS has expressed concern about government’s failure to release funds to the schools.

The government promised to make 20 percent of the funds two weeks before re-opening for the implementation of the programme available to the schools before the start of the programme.

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According to the General Secretary of CHASS, Mr Samuel Gyebi Yeboah, "Now all headmasters are at conference and we hope that by the time we go back the money would have come. We are expecting the Deputy Minister of Education at our conference this week.

"Perhaps when he comes he will be able to explain things to us. The classrooms are ready, dormitories are ready, beds are ready, so it is left with logistics like money.

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"We are however optimistic that the government will release the funds to the various senior high school schools across the country."

The Free SHS programme will start in September with the first year students in all the high schools in the country.