City mayors’ group backs K-to-12 program

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/04/2015

The League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) is supporting the implementation of the K-to-12 program of the national government, which adds two more years to secondary education. In a statement, which was initially signed by 11…

School teacher champions T’boli kids

PR 08/04/2015

Up in the mountains of Lake Sebu of South Cotabato, a 62-year-old widow lovingly tends and nurtures T’Boli families to help them grow into self-reliant communities. Anita Castillon, or  “Nanay Anit”  to many, is a small woman…

Choking on road repair

Jobers R. Bersales 07/23/2015

The suggestion to implement color-coding or number-coding for vehicles plying the streets of Mandaue and Cebu cities to solve the traffic mess is blaming the victim. The simultaneous and sudden repair and widening of roads without any…

Over P220,000 raised for Daniel’s education

07/15/2015

A crowdfunding campaign has raised over P220,000 to help 9-year-old Daniel Cabrera achieve his dreams. Daniel, who was photographed by a passerby who saw the boy doing his homework under the light of a McDonald’s parking lot,…

Capitol projects stir Samboan town

Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/23/2015

Gov turns over classrooms, covered courts, P15K cash to town execs FIVE new classrooms and two covered courts were inaugurated yesterday in Samboan town, south Cebu. Cash assistance of P15,000 was also handed out to 14 barangay…

K TO 12 REALITY

Melissa Q. Cabahug, Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/07/2015

Parents mixed over additional two years of school next year Jozasana Gallego is scheduled to graduate from a private school in Cebu City two years from now. But if the K-to-12 program takes effect next year, then…

It’s sink or swim with K to 12

06/01/2015

The El Niño heat wave and the number of classrooms available may be  primary concerns   this  school opening but the K-to-12 program looks to be the  permanent education issue that Filipinos can ill-afford to ignore. Militant youth…

Back to school preparations set for tomorrow

05/31/2015

More than half a million students in Central Visayas are expected to attend today’s school opening. Regional Director Juliet Jeruta of the Department of Education (DepEd) said classes in public schools starts today, June 1, following two…

More scholars enrolling in ACT despite payment dispute

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 05/31/2015

Over a thousand scholars chose to study at the Asian College of Technology International Educational Foundation, Inc. (ACTIEF) despite the ongoing dispute  between the school and Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama over unpaid scholarship vouchers. ACTIEF lawyer…

Topnotcher worked as construction worker

Jhunnex Napallacan 05/25/2015

He was a construction worker and he flunked a subject once. But Chris Ian Gargar is not ashamed to admit these. Gargar, a topnotcher in the recent  Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET), said failing a  subject in…

For every difficult question, a tear and a prayer

Melissa Q. Cabahug 05/25/2015

He visited five churches before the exam, and prayed one Hail Mary for every answer he was not sure of. John Lester Lastimosa was elated to find his name in the  list of topnotchers of  the CPA…

In the land of K to 12

Jobers R. Bersales 05/21/2015

Clarence Pesodas first came to the United States in the early 2000s to teach at the senior high school level, that is Grades 11 and 12, at a public high school in downtown New York City. She…

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