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Senator Sherwin Gatchalian yesterday revealed there are 19,000 “ghost” or undocumented students in private schools supposedly enrolled through a state voucher program that so far, the lawmaker says, has cost the government P7 billion.
Just last month, the Department of Education reported a 97-percent utilization rate of its 2024 budget for E-GASTPE, the government’s largest private school scholarship program, especially on the expansion of the existing Educational Service Contracting scheme. Since they have no records like attendance in classes, they were considered “undocumented students,” he added.
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