Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

wo. 2083

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by: HON. CLAUDE P. BAUTISTA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article 14 of the Philippine Constitution states that "The State shall
protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all
levels, and shall take appropriate steps to make such education accessible
to all. Provide adult citizens, the disabled, and out-of-school youth with
training in civics, vocational efficiency and other skills.” Thus, the highest
law of the land expressly affirms that education is a primordial and
fundamental mandate to the Staté that cannot be evaded without just
reason.

This Bill seeks for the conversion of the Kidaman Elementary
School in Barangay Kalbay, Municipality of Jose Abad Santos in the
Province of Davao Occidental. Ground for filing this Bill is the increasing
student population that cannot continue with their secondary school
education due to the distance of high schools that are located in the other
barangays in the municipality. Students committed to their ambition to
pursue secondary education have to walk and trek in the precipitous
rough mountain roads, rough rivers, dark forests and mountain cliffs. All
these put their safety at risk.

Furthermore, going to the high schools that are far from Barangay
Kalbay means great expenses in the students’ transportation. Residents of
said barangay, while desirous for their children to pursue the next level of
education find it difficult because, of their occupation (which is mostly
farming and fishing), very low income, and the challenging topography of
their locale. These hurdles have made some of the elementary school
graduates to stop from schooling.

Adjacent secondary schools are Kolbe High School, Edna Guillermo
High School and their extensions are accessible only through trekking and
horseback riding. The drawback of such challenges has drove many
would-be high school students to get married at an early age to escape
from the expectation of their parents to help them augment the family
income by working in the farms,

Conversion of Kidaman Elementary School into Kidaman Integrated
School is highly recommended. The reason for this is to get all school age
population to go beyond the elementary education level. Kidaman
Integrated School when converted will lessen the expenses in schooling
and encouraged the students to attend high school because of the
proximity of their residences and therefore to their families.



If the Kidaman Elementary School is converted in the coming
Academic Year of 2020-2021 it will be able to offer Grade 8 and would
motivate students to go back to school and finish their studies. This could
well be a step in the right direction in developing our human resources
that could redound to the acceleration of national development.

Approval of this Bill is earnestly sought.

CLAU} UTISTA


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 2083

Introduced by: HON, CLAUDE P, BAUTISTA

AN ACT CONVERTING THE KIDAMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN
BARANGAY KALBAY, MUNICIPALITY OF JOSE ABAD SANTOS, PROVINCE
OF DAVAO OCCIDENTAL INTO AN INTEGRATED SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN

AS KIDAMAN 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 Kidaman Elementary School in Barangay Kalbay,
Municipality of Jose Abad Santos, Province of Davao Occidental is hereby
converted into an integrated school to be known as Kidaman Integrated
School.

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

SECTION 3. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in
the Department's program the operationalization of the Kidaman 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 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,