CRC/C/COL/CO/3 page 15 (b) A rights-based National Strategy of Education remains lacking; (c) The quality of education remains low in the public system and disadvantages vulnerable groups in society; (d) The persistence of hidden costs for administrative fees and costs for uniforms, materials and transport. This is demonstrated in a high and increasing dropout rate among vulnerable groups in society, in particular in rural areas; (e) The policy of etnoeducación (bilingual education) for indigenous communities lacks coverage and is often done without sufficient consultation with the communities; (f) Female students suffer discrimination and termination of their schooling as a consequence of early pregnancies and marriages. Schools continue to apply expulsion on the grounds of pregnancy despite a Constitutional Court ruling that such gender-based discrimination constitutes an infringement on the right to education; (g) Statistics are still lacking on the coverage, dropout and completion rates according to urban/rural areas, ethnicity and sex; (h) The high numbers of teachers killed, on average three each month, in the areas affected by the internal armed conflict, constitutes a serious impediment to the realization of the right to education; (i) The recurrent usage of schools by State armed forces and establishment of military bases near schools creates military targets for illegal armed groups, making it impossible for children to receive education; (j) The participation of children in military training activities and school study visits to military bases, in the context of the ongoing internal armed conflict, compromises the humanitarian law principle of distinction of the civilian population and puts children at risk of retaliation by members of illegal armed groups; (k) The inclusion of human rights education in school curricula remains insufficient. 77. The Committee urges that national legislation be amended to clearly reflect the right to free primary education and also recommends the State party to: (a) Devote more resources to education in the national budget and to substantially increase the percentage of funds for the public sector; (b) Develop a rights-based national strategy of education; (c) Focus on an overall improvement of the quality of education provided, in particular in rural areas; (d) Increase efforts to eliminate the discrimination in access to education by monitoring the effective abolition of enrolment fees and other costs in order to counteract high dropout and low completion rates. The Committee recommends the use of proactive