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DepEd’s school-building budget for 2020 should be augmented in the light of the damage sustained by the 500 classrooms and 700 school buildings during last month’s earthquakes in Southern Mindanao. Congress cannot be impervious to a tragedy which threatens the schooling of

The Senate should conduct its own post-earthquake assessment – to find out if the Calamity Fund in this year’s budget and the one for next year is enough to help the people and places hit by the recent Southern Mindanao earthquakes. We should conduct an inventory of funds. There

While others sought comfort in numbers, Nene drew strength from his convictions. He was a maverick who could not resist a good fight, many of which by his lonesome, for he believed that one man with courage was enough to make a majority. And he paid dearly for being true to his

7,107 public health nurses ang nangangambang mawalan ng trabaho sa susunod na taon. Kasing dami ng mga isla sa ating kapuluan.  If not reversed, it will turn us into an archipelago of dismissed nurses. It is a kind of hospital discharge that is the most unkind.  This is

Increasing their annual “chalk allowance” should be part of a package of amelioration measures for our public school teachers. The package should include a pay raise, an increase in their clothing allowance, a hike in chalk allowance, the creation of higher ranks, and increasing

Nearly 772,000 public teachers are faced with a career roadblock because of a curable problem in the DepEd plantilla system. Many are stranded for years, or even forever, in deadend positions where promotion is delayed or impossible because of missing rungs in the DepEd career

Delikadong ma-endo ang pag-aaral ng daan-daang libong mga estudyante sa kolehiyo kung matutuloy ang balak na tapyasan ng P11.6 bilyon ang budget ng Commission on Higher Education (CHED) para sa taong 2020. Instead of diplomas, government will be handing out dismissal slips. The

Funding for the Philippine General Hospital is the national barometer of our health priorities. It is the national hospital, so the money it gets from the government reflects the importance government gives to health. But for 2020, PGH will be getting a P456 million budget cut.

Ang Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) ang gamot sa kulang at bulok na mga pasilidad sa mga pampublikong pagamutan. Sa taong kasalukuyan, ang budget ng HFEP ay P15.9 billion. Ngunit magkano ang nireseta ng DBM para sa HFEP sa 2020? P5.9 billion. Two-thirds ang kinaltas.