Out of the 39,066 teachers to be hired this year, not one was hired in time for the opening of classes in June, prompting Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto to urge the Department of Education (DepEd) to speed up its personnel hiring process. The DepEd has been given

The Department of Education (DepEd) has been prodded to step up its procurement of science and math equipment after a report submitted to the Senate showed that not one delivery has been made to the 38,689 schools who were supposed to get them as early as last year. Senate

With unsafe food, from contaminated durian candies to toxic milk tea downing thousands of people every year, a senator has called for the formation of a team of scientists and doctors which can be rapidly deployed to places hit by food poisoning outbreaks. “I think it is time to

So that classes will not be disrupted when public schools are used as evacuation centers during calamities, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto has proposed the construction of disaster-resilient gyms that can serve as refuge for people displaced by man-made or natural

Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Sixteenth Congress Second Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of July, two thousand fourteen. [ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10665 ] AN ACT ESTABLISHING OPEN HIGH SCHOOL SYSTEM

If the world will allow China to put up a “no fishing” sign around the Great Wall of Sand it is aggressively building in the West Philippine Sea, it will “starve” Filipinos of a staple in their diet – fish, Sen. Ralph Recto said today. “It will hit us where it hurts most – our

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today urged PhilHealth to probe deeper into the fraudulent payments it made to private clinics and hospitals to find out if recipients of multi-million-peso reimbursements had help from the inside. This as Recto called for heavier

The Philippine National Railways (PNR) trains should be back on service not later than the fourth Monday of this month so that President Aquino can cite the resumption of the operations of this vital people carrier in his State of the Nation Address (SONA). “The PNR trains have

The expected boom in casino and gaming activities would ensure that more modern Doppler radars would be available for use by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) once it modernized. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today

Saying that government should install “access ramps” to public funds, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto today called on agencies to implement “without delay” projects for the disabled like the earmarking of 10 percent of this year’s P1.2 billion budget for school