PH education system ‘on the brink of collapse’, group says P120B needed to fund needs amid the pandemic

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Due to “severely lacking” state support, a group of education workers warned on Monday, May 17, that the Philippines’ education system is on the “brink of collapse” if the challenges faced by schools, teachers and learners remain unaddressed.

The Alliance of Concerned Teachers Philippines welcomed the resumption of session in Congress with a protest outside its gates in Quezon City.

“Our duly-elected lawmakers are hereby challenged again to prove that they’re worth the people’s votes by fulfilling their duty to ensure quality education is safe and accessible to all,” he added.did not give funding to education while the second, only provided around P4 billion. Meanwhile, he noted that the substitute bill for3 – which is up for Committee approval before submission to the plenary – allocated a “paltry” P5.6 billion to distance learning needs.

Citing its own estimate, ACT said that the in order to cover the requisites of distance learning implemented by the Department of Education , at least P98.5 billion is need. “An additional P14.68 billion is needed to prepare for face-to-face classes in low-risk areas, and P7.2 billion to give due protection and health benefits to education frontliners,” Basilio added.

 

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Remove in Congress all CPP/NPA/NDF, terrorist, partylist front identified by Joma Sison & pera na ma-save dito yan yung gamitin. Mga salot sa bayan. Hindi kayo nakakatulong.

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When a group announces an issue using the phrase 'on the brink' Then It has collapsed already. Health & Education are tandems like socio-economic. Both are dependents on each other... Only OVP is on point on this.

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