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Educators to candidates: Take stand vs unconstitutional K-to-12
THE progressive teachers’ network Educators’ Forum for Development (EfD) asserted that the K-to-12 program is unconstitutional and illegal, and renewed calls for its suspension in a seminarforum. Days away from the May polls, the educators
also challenged electoral candidates to scrap the probig business K-to-12 and stand for national, massoriented, and scientific education. During the forum dubbed “Elections 2016 and the Education Agenda,” EfD stated that the K-to12 program violates major
provisions of the Philippine constitution. For instance, the Department of Education (DepEd) voucher system to help Grade 11 students enroll in private schools violates Section 2 of the Philippine constitution which says that the State shall “establish and maintain a system of
free public education in the elementary and high school levels.” The DepEd voucher system called Government Assistance for Students and Teachers in Private Education (GATSPE) allots a maximum of P22,500 in financial assistance to See stands, page A7
Former IBP president linked to missing P33.9M legal aid fund B By PAT SAMONTE Caraga Regional Editor
U T UA N C i t y -- For failure to clear up the P33,983,606.19 legal aid fund, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines has been made to account for the amount by the Commission on Audit and the Fiscal Management and Budget Office of the Supreme Court. See full story, page A5
Explosives found in South Cotabato
GENERAL Santos City -- Army and police personnel recovered on Monday a cache of improvised high-powered explosives believed owned by New People’s Army WATER FROM HIS CAPTORS. Ka Pia, an NPA rebel, gives Senior Police Officer 4 Rene Rombo a bottle of water during his release in Barangay Banglay in Lagonglong town, (NPA) rebels in a makeshift bunker in Misamis Oriental on Monday, May 2, 2016. Rombo was captured by the NPA last April T’boli town in South Cotabato. L t . C o l . B e n j a m i n L e a n d e r, 3, after the rebels set up a roadblock in nearby Talisayan town. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo
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