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Introduced by: HON. CLAUDE P. BAUTISTA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Pursuant to Department Order No. 40, s. 2014, of the
Department of Education, stakeholders of the Municipality of
Malita in the Province of Davao Occidental are engaged in efforts
for the conversion of the TFS of Tambelang Elementary School
into the TFS of Tambelang Integrated School. As stated in the
said Department Order, conversion of an elementary school to an
integrated school to provide complete basic education can be
authorized for as long as it complied with three of the following
stipulations in the Department Order.

TFS of Tambelang is distant from the Mariano Peralta
National High School--Datu Danwata Extension, its
neighboring secondary school. The latter is some three to four
hours away from the TFS of Tambelang Elementary School.
There are no schools offering complete basic education within
the catchment area. This very distance hinders most of the’
graduates of TFS Tambeiang Elementary School to pursue the
next higher level of education. It only follows that students who
are living in areas near Barangay Datu Danwata are the
fortunate ones who can take secondary education.

There will be no problem in terms of staff when the TFS
Tambelang Integrated School is put into place. As of this
writing there are already 15 teachers and a school head up
against the required 17 teachers and two school heads. The
parties involved in the conversion of the TFS Tambelang
Integrated School believes that the minimum number of
whatever lacking personne! there could be can be remedied as
soon as possible. Thirteen of the teachers who are assigned at
the TFS Tambelang Elementary School are qualified secondary
school teachers and even with the conversion from an
elementary to an integrated school, the problem of staffing will
not be a big hurdle.

While there may be some equipment and resources that
are lacking to suppori a separate elementary and integrated


school, when placed in only one venue, said equipment and
resources can be used to provide the primary requirements of
the school.

As with the other topographical characteristics of the
sitios in the Municipality of Malita, Tambelang has rolling
terrain and only a few are suitable for the establishment of the
school. There is one parent who is willing to donate a piece of
land for the expansion of the site; however, it is difficult to find
a donor for the establishment of a separate secondary school.

In the school year 2016 -2017, TFS of Tambelang
Elementary School has only 86 as its graduates. Back then it is
not feasible to open a separate secondary school. Assessment
and looking into the near future of trends in the studentry
population, the establishment of a separate secondary school is
not merited. It is therefore more practical to have TFS
Tambelang Elementary School to be converted into the TFS
Tambelang Integrated School. !

At the moment, TFS Tambelang Elementary School has
only six nationallyfunded classrooms and one improved
makeshift. Additional two classrooms are in drawing board and
will soon be implemented. With these additional classroom
there will be enough to rationalize the conversion for said
school. Present classrooms are equipped with chairs and
classroom furnitures. Add to these that teachers deployed at
TFS Tambelang Elementary School are in excess of the
standard teacher to pupil ration.

The conversion of TFS Tambelang Elementary School to
TFS Tambelang Integrated School is strongly supported by the
Local Government Units, the local Parent-Teachers
Association, students, and other who will benefit from this
move.

Approval of this Bill is earnestly sought.

CLAUDE UTISTA


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 2082

Introduced by: HON. CLAUDE P. BAUTISTA

AN ACT CONVERTING THE TFS OF TAMBELANG ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL IN BARANGAY DATU DANWATA, MUNICIPALITY OF MALITA,
PROVINCE OF DAVAO OCCIDENTAL INTO AN INTEGRATED SCHOOL TO BE
KNOWN AS TFS OF TAMBELANG INTEGRATED SCHOOL AND
APPOPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The TFS of Tambelang Elementary School in Barangay Datu
Danwata, Municipality of Malita, Province of Davao Occidental is hereby
converted into an integrated school to be known as TFS of Tambelang
Integrated School.

SECTION 2. All personnel, assets, liabilities, and records of the TFS of
Tambelang Elementary School are hereby transferred to and absorbed by the
TFS of Tambelang Integrated School.

SECTION 3. The Secretary cf Education shall immediately include in the
Department's program the operationalization of the TFS of Tambelang
Integrated School, the funding of which shall be included in the annual
General Appropriations Act.

__ , SECTION 4. Within one hundred twenty (120) days from the approval of
this Act, the Secretary of Education shall formulate the rules and regulations
implementing the 16 provisions of this Act.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,