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From August 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, the government must build an average of 254 classrooms a day – or about two kilometers long every 24 hours – in order for President Aquino to redeem his promise of building 84,728 classrooms in his last 11 months in office. Senate President

A national budget is a spending measure but it ceases to be when the funds it appropriates “are spent slowly, spent late or not spent at all.” Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto said this in pointing out that more than the “peso signs” in the proposed three trillion-peso

Two important documents submitted after the State of the Nation Address (SONA) are as important as the SONA itself, “and in fact are better tools in assessing the state of the nation,” Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto said. These are the Technical Report to the SONA

Following the Department of Science and Technology‘s (DOST) launching of six pilot free WiFi hotspots in Metro Manila, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto said “public hospitals, airports and mass transit system must be prioritized next.” Recto, who sponsored t

Problem hiring teachers? Try tapping the huge Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) pool. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto suggested this to the Department of Education (DepEd) after it admitted in a report to the Senate that it has yet to hire one teacher from the 39,066

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