Students attend a flag-raising ceremony before singing the national anthem on the first day of in-person classes after years-long Covid-19 lockdowns at Pedro Guevara Elementary School in Manila on August 22, 2022.MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education will undertake a nationwide mapping of all 12,212 private schools this July to identify those that can "absorb" students from nearby overcrowded public schools through targeted voucher subsidies.
“While mapping of public schools was previously conducted by DepEd and OpenStreetMap, this is the first time that DepEd will do a comprehensive mapping of all private schools across the country— a critical next step in furthering its recently released policy, DepEd Order No. 6, series of 2024, on the public and private basic education complementarity framework,” EDCOM 2 Executive Director Karol Mark Yee said.
Challenges have hounded DepEd's GASTPE program, especially its tuition fee subsidy scheme for private senior high school students under the Senior High School Voucher Program . Latitude and longitude coordinates of private schools will be used for geospatial analysis, which aims to "enable the identification of nearby public and private schools that could still accommodate additional enrollment," EDCOM 2 told"For congested public schools, this list of nearby schools can be used to facilitate enrollment referrals.
Lawmakers and education officials have increasingly tapped the voucher system to accommodate the growing student population in basic education amid the perennial shortage of classrooms in public schools.out of the planned 6,300, based on figures shared by Vice President Sara Duterte during her second Basic Education Report in January.
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