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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 5363

Introduced by HON. LORNA P. BAUTISTA-BANDIGAN

Section 2 of Republic Act No. 9155 states that “The State shall protect and
promote the right ofall citizens to quality basic education and to make such education
accessible to all by proiding all Filipino children a free and compulsory education in
the high school level.”

Barangay Nueva Villa is one of the (15) fifteen barangays in the Municipality
of Don Marcelino. It has a total population of 1, 905 (2015 est). Residents of the
barangay is made up of the predominantly B'laan tribe whose main occupation is
farming. It has one elementary school that produces some 60 graduates every
academic year. It is supplemented by a feeder school that has some 30 graduates a
year. Itis expected that enrollees from the elementary schools in the barangay will
be not less than 200 per year starting from AY 2017-2018. Students coming from the
five feeder schools presented in Nueva Villa will more than rationalize the
establishment ofa national high school in the area. The barangay has no existing high
school.

The nearest high school is the Lawa National High School (LNHS) in Barangay
Lawa, in Don Marcelino. It can be reached for more than thirty minutes by habal-
habal or by walking for one hour the eight kilometer distance. For the indigent
Bilaans, paying Five hundred pesos (P500.00) is too much for them to shoulder,
considering that they can hardly earn enough monthly income to take care of their
basic needs. Another high school is Don Marcelino National High School (DMNHS)
which is located in Barangay Talagutong, Don Marcelino and is some 15 kilometers
away from Barangay Nueva Villa.

Having a high school in Nueva Villa will provide the students coming from the
hinterland-most part of the municipality the opportunity to pursue secondary
education, Itis to the credit of the Department of Education that it has the mission to
reach the unreachable and bring education nearer to those in the peripheral areas to
fulfill the education agenda for all the Filipino citizens. Ms. Ethelinda Villanueva
Quifiones, a resident of Nueva Villa, has donated a 10,000 square meters of land for
the purpose.


There is a private school participating in the Government Assistance to
Students and Teachers in Private Education (GATSPE) and Educational Counterpart
(ESC) but it is 28 kilometers aways from Nueva Villa. It is almost an impossible feat
for the B'laans to send their children to this school because of the exorbitant financial
requirements which they cannot comply with.

For the sake of this tribe's educational attainment, it is highly recommended
that this Bill be approved soonest.



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

5368

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by: HON. LORNA P. BAUTISTA-BANDIGAN

AN ACT SEPARATING THE LAWA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL - NUEVA VILLA
EXTENSION IN BARANGAY LAWA, MUNICIPALITY OF DON MARCELINO, PROVINCE OF
DAVAO OCCIDENTAL FROM LAWA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, CONVERTING IT INTO AN
INDEPENDENT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS CORONA A. CABANILLA
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, AND APPOPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SEC. 1. The Lawa National High School — Nueva Villa Extension in Barangay Lawa,
Municipality of Don Marcelino, Province of Davao Occidental is hereby separated from Lawa
National High School and converted into an independent national high school to be known as
the Corona A. Cabanilla National High School.

SEC. 2. All personnel, assets and liabilities and records of the Lawa National High
Scool —Nueva Villa Extension are hereby transferred to and absorbed by the by the Corona A.
Cabanilla National High School.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the Department's
program the operationalization of the Corona A. Cabanilla National High School,the initial
funding of which shall be charged against the current year’s appropriation of the Lawa National
High School - Nueva Villa Extension. Thereafter, the amount necessary for the continued
operation of the school shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act

SEC. 3. Within one hundred twenty (120) days after the approval of this Act, the
Secretary of Education shall formulate the rules and regulations implementing the provisions of
this Act.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official
Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,