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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 01 AUG 2013
Quezon City

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SIXTEENTH CONGRESS

First Regular Session

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HOUSE BILL NO. 222 =

Introduced by: CONGRESSMAN VICTOR J. YU

EXPLANATORY NOTE,

Individual’s right to education is an internationally accepted component of human rights enshrined in
Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 14 of the International Covenant on
Feonomie, Social, and Cultural Rights. It is understood to mean the entitlement to free, compulsory and equitable
access to education,

In our country, the Filipinos right to education is embodied in Article XIV of the 1987 Constitution where
the state is mandated to protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels, and to make
such education accessible to all.

Ivis for this reason that our government has instituted free elementary and secondary education. However,
access to educational systems deprived millions of children including adults of their right to education.

Consider for example in Barangay Monte Alegre, Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur where the main source of
income is agriculture and majority of the population is living in poverty, The only hope of their children is to eam
good education to be assured of better jobs in the future. However, in order to avail of complete secondary
education, students will haye to travel five (5) to eight (8) kilometers from their barangay to the nearest secondary
school. As a result, a number of elementary graduates have sacrificed their right (o education by ceasing to pursue
secondary education due to inaccessibility of the schools

As an initiative, the Parents-Teachers-Community Association (PTCA) and the local officials of the
Municipality of Aurora established an annex school known as Juan Lumosad Memorial National High School ~
Monte Alegre Annex. However, most of the teachers are borrowed only from the mother school and the rest are
paid by the PTCA. Thus, it is believed that the separation of Juan Lumosad Memorial National High Schoo! —
Monte Alegre Annex ftom Juan Lumosad Memorial National High School - Main Campus which is the very
purpose of this bill will contribute a lot in providing accessible education to the nearby residents.

It is in this regard that this representation is seeking for the immediate approval of this bill Separating Juan
Lumosad Memorial National High Schoo! ~ Monte Alegre Annex in Bray. Monte Alegre, Municipality of Aurora,
Province of Zamboanga del Sur from Juan Lumosad Memorial National High School Main Campus, to be known
as Monte Alegre National High School.

Representative, 1* Distrigt, Zamboanga del Sur


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNO.__2222

Introduced by; CONGRESSMAN VICTOR J. YU

AN ACT
SEPARATING JUAN LUMOSAD MEMORIAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL - MONTE
ALEGRE ANNEX, BARANGAY MONTE ALEGRE, MUNICIPALITY OF AURORA,
PROVINCE OF ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR FROM JUAN LUMOSAD MEMORIAL NATIONAL
HIGH SCHOOL ~ MAIN, TO BE KNOWN AS Mi f ALEGRE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.

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

SECTION 1, Separation and Conversion into a National h School, The Juna Lumosad
Memorial National High School ~ Monte Alegre Annex in Brgy. Monte Alegre, Municipality of Aurora,
Province of Zamboanga del Sur is hereby separated from Juan Lumosad Memorial National High
School, Main Campus located in the Municipality of Aurora, and is converted into an independent
national high school to be known as Monte Alegre National High School.

SECTION 2. Transfer of Assets and Liabilities, All personnel, records, assets and liabilities of
the Juan Lumosad Memorial National High School ~ Monte Alegre Annex are hereby transferred to and
absorbed by the Monte Alegre National High School.

SECTION 3. Appropriations, The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the
Department’s program and operationalization of the Monte Alegre National High School, the initial
funding of which shall be charged against the current year’s appropriations of Juan Lumosad Memorial
National High School — Monte Alegre Annex. Thereafter, the amount nec
operation of the school shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

ry for the continued
SECTION 4. Implementation. The Secretary of Education shall issue such rules and regulations
as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this act.

SECTION 5. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect fifteen days after its publication in the Official
Gazette.

Approved.