Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Separate schools division for Tabuk City eyed

Tabuk City, Kalinga – The city government here is spearheading a move to establish an ad interim schools division while waiting for the creation of a regular schools division for the city.

The Local School Board (LSB) of the city has set the ball rolling by passing a resolution requesting Education Secretary Jesli Lapus for the establishment of an ad interim division during its special meeting on November 6.

Mayor Camilo Lammawin, Jr. informed that the resolution when endorsed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod, the schools division superintendent and the regional director of the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan is the initial requirement for the establishment of an ad interim schools division.

The other two requirements, according to Lammawin, are a certification of willingness of employees of the DepEd to be deployed in the ad interim division and also the presence of at least 750 teaching and non-teaching staff in the locality.

Lammawin said that at the moment, there are around 800 DepEd employees assigned to the city with around a 100 more working in the private sector.

Lammawin said that the ad interim division is a de facto division although not regular.

“It will function just like a regular division in preparation for the amendment of the charter of the city or the passage of bill for the creation of a regular schools division,” Lammawin said.

In his speech during the opening program of the first city sports meet on November 6, Congressman Manuel Agyao has pledged that he will fully support the establishment of an ad interim division and that later on, he will work for the amendment of the city charter for the creation of a separate schools division.

Lammawin expressed the hope that the interim set up will be in place by January 2009 even as he informed that towards that end, P1.5 M is allocated in the 2009 executive budget P1M of which is for MOOE and the P0.5M for office equipment outlay.

“We believe that having a schools division will make the city more responsive and resilient for the continued growth and accelerated development of education and sports in the city,” Lammawin said.

Lammawin said that the establishment of an ad interim schools division will mean closer working relationship between the LGU and the DepEd especially in the provision of trainings to improve the capabilities of teachers which will redound to the benefit of students. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

thats a good news, hope it will succeed! but its not all about trining for teachers to give the best of the students but its about employing the most qualified and effective teachers, our province is full of unemployed competetive young teachers but they can never share their talents to our students who need such effective teachings, due to the fact that htey will never be employed to public schools because the people in authority don´t know them personally or those qualified applicant teachers didn´t participate during the political campaign ..tama ba ako?

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