Batangas Second District Congressman Hermilando I. Mandanas presented to the Department of
Education (DepEd) the P200 Billion
funding program to upgrade the basic education in the Philippines, as contained
in the House Resolution (HR) No. 158, which was adopted by the House of
Representatives last year.
The P200 Billion fund, Mandanas said, is available to construct the backlog of
200,000 classrooms, furnished with chairs, tables, blackboards, electric fans,
etc.
Another 50,000 e-learning centers
with at least 1 Million computers, with connectivity, can be constructed for
the approximately 25 Million elementary and high school students, now under the
K12 Program of DepEd. The 500,000 teachers and administrators will
also be provided with their individual computer. At the moment, there is only one computer for
every 250 public school students and only 2% of the teachers are computer
literate.
The
implementation of the P200 Billion upgrading of basic education will be
undertaken by the Local Government Units (LGUs), who expect to receive a total
of P500 Billion from unreleased Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA).
Mandanas said he is optimistic that the Supreme
Court will rule favorably on his Petition for the release of P500 Billion IRA
backpay to Provinces, Cities, Municipalities and Barangays on or before July,
2012. Of this amount, 40%, or P200
Billion, will be used to upgrade the standards of basic education in the
Philippines as contained in HR No. 158. The remaining P300 Billion of the P500 Billion
IRA backpay will be used to improve the devolved health services and for local
projects like roads, water system, housing, calamity mitigation, livelihood, safeguarding
the environment and other much needed local projects.
The Department
of Education will assist the P200 Billion Funding Program by instructing its
Regional, Division and District personnel to provide all the information needed
by the LGUs to implement this program, and to request for the new schoolrooms
and other facilities to upgrade the standards of basic education in the
Philippines using the IRA backpay upon its release.
Mandanas,
who is a son of a public elementary school teacher, and also graduated from a
Barangay Public Elementary School, emphasized that, “the P200 Billion for Basic Education will raise the competence and
dignity of the Filipinos. The Philippine
economy is primarily based on the quality of citizenry. All Filipinos, including our Overseas
Filipino Workers (OFW) and those in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
industry, will enhance their capabilities and will then be able to work and
earn enough to reach and meet the increasingly high cost of respectable living
in the Philippines”.
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