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Read more about the article Davao City councilor confirms lack of classrooms
BACK TO SCHOOL. A total of 52 pupils are going to occupy this classroom in Davao City’s Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Central Elementary School for school year 2013-14. The room’s capacity should be for 44 pupils only, the teacher said Monday. The Alliance of Concerned Teachers said the country lacks 32,644 classrooms, 2.5 Million chairs and 60 M textbooks for this school year. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Davao City councilor confirms lack of classrooms

A local legislator admits the need for more classrooms for public schools and teachers in the city as the number of enrollees has increased this year.

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Read more about the article Hike teachers’ wage, Palace asked
FIRST DAY HIGH. A Grade 3 pupil in Davao City’s Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Elementary School submits his notebook to his teacher for checking on Monday, the first day of school year 2013-14. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Hike teachers’ wage, Palace asked

On the first day of this school year, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) called anew for the increase in salary of public school teachers.

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Read more about the article Old woes hound public schools
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. A total of 2,732 students of Mintal Comprehensive High School in Barangay Mintal, Davao City line up for the first flag ceremony of the school year during the opening of classes on Monday, June 5. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Old woes hound public schools

Another school year is set to open next week, but public schools were expected to struggle with same "age-old problems".

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Read more about the article Restoring “disallowed fees” robs studes of government free education – Kabataan Partylist

Restoring “disallowed fees” robs studes of government free education – Kabataan Partylist

The Kabataan party-list criticized the restoring of the fees that were already stricken out of the list to be collected from students and said the move robbed students of the full benefit of government's free tertiary education.

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