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Solons tell DepEd, Ched: Scrap field trips of studes By Gerry Baldo 05/10/2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Solons tell DepEd, Ched: Scrap field trips of studes

By Gerry Baldo 05/10/2012

Lawmakers yesterday ganged up on officials of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) and Department of Education (DepEd) for not taking action on schools that compel students to join field trips.

Camaguin Rep. Pedro Romualdo and Western Samar Rep. Mel Senen Sarmiento during yesterday’s joint hearing of the House committees on higher and technical education and basic education and culture, said their constituents had been asking for financial assistance for their children to join field trips imposed by the schools.

Romualdo proposed that a resolution should be adopted to stop schools from imposing their field trip programs, while Sarmiento, along with Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, chairman of the higher and technical education panel asked Ched to immediately draft the guidelines for field trips..... MORE

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