By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “The plan for K+12 is not to provide higher education opportunities to the youth, but merely to create an army of semi-skilled labor for immediate employment abroad. It’s being designed to develop immediately employable youth locally for them to become underpaid, or worse, abused workers in a foreign land.” -- Atty. Leah Librado-Yap, Davao City First District Councilor
By PAUL RANDY P. GUMANAO Davao Today According to Palma Gil, the students’ resistance has inspired the establishment of an anti-Nazi students’ coalition in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere. Now, the commemoration is essentially an observance of the continued contribution of student activism in various reforms in the educational system.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Pikit town received a total of 30,816 bags of rice and 444 bags of beans for the whole duration of the feeding program. WFP has allocated a total of 124,918 bags of rice and 2,505 bags of beans for the whole province.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Elenito Escalante, chairperson of the teachers’ group Kahugpongan sa mga Magtutudlo ug Kawani sa Edukasyon sa Mindanao (Kamkem) said K + 12 is not the answer to the shortage of classrooms, textbooks, and the problem on teachers, among others which are recurring problems of the country’s educational system.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today These lumad children long for knowledge. Not even their parents can stop them from going to school, even if it means they have to contend with their empty stomachs.