Same old problems hound school opening
By Jason Faustino 06/15/2010 Perennial problems hound public and private students from both in the elementary and secondary levels return to their respective schools today, marking the start of the 2010-2011 school year. Education Secretary Mona Valisno said they expect 24.43 million students to return to school, to which 20.17 million or 86 percent of the total number will be attending public schools, while 3.26 million will go to private schools. Of the number, 3.15 million are in Grade 1 and 1.73 million in first year high school. All in all, 13.44 million students will attend public elementary schools and 5.65 million in public secondary schools, while 1.17 million and 1.45 million will be attending private elementary and secondary schools, respectively. Another 0.88 million are enrolled in public pre-schools and 0.45 million in private pre-schools. The Department of Education (DepEd) said this year’s enrolment figures showed an increase of close to one million from the 2009 level of 22.44 million (19.46 million in the public schools and 2.98 million in private schools). In 2008, the number of students stood at 21.61 million, or an increase of nearly one million from the 2007 figures of 20.91 million. Enrolment has consistently risen over the years with Education officials attributing this to an increase in the population of the country as well as campaign to get as many school-age children and out-of-school-youth to attend classes.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100615hed3.html |
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