'It's a waste that we don't solve the problem of congestion because we are randomly giving the voucher program to students,' the senator said.
Students listen attentively to their teacher during their face-to-face class at the Hands of Children School in Quezon City on August 19, 2022.MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education's senior high school voucher program had mostly benefited non-poor students and largely failed to decongest public schools even as it forked over large sums of money for private schools to absorb students, new data shared during a Senate hearing showed.
These estimates by Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate basic education panel, are similar to the findings raised by the Commission on Audit in 2018 that the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education program — which the SHS vouchers are under — was benefiting “non-poor” students due to DepEd’s inability to ensure its efficient implementation.
that the 1.2 million voucher beneficiaries this school year already included the 542,000 estimated aisle learners. Lawyer Tara Rama of DepEd vowed to review GASTPE's guidelines to address the program's non-prioritization of poor students, as well as it's ability to target students in overcrowded public schools.
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