Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has filed a bill that seeks to establish a mechanism where elementary and secondary students can have free and uninterrupted acces to digitized copies of textbooks and other learning materials.
Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate Committee on Basic Education, filed Senate Bill No. 477 or the proposed Philippine Online Library Act, in which the Department of Education is mandated to create digitized copies of all textbooks and reference books it deems necessary for the public education of our elementary and secondary learners.
The bill also requires the DepEd and the National Library of the Philippines to have joint custodies over the digitized copies of textbooks. To ensure access to digitized copies of textbooks, the bill also require DepEd to provide computers, laptops, and other appropriate devices to all public elementary and secondary schools nationwide.
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