Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Sixteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 4254

Introduced by Honorable Arturo B. Robes

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Constitution mandates the State to provide free elementary education. This
magnanimity, however, on the part of the State becomes irrelevant in places where there are
demands for elementary education but there are no available schoo! buildings and teachers to
‘speak of, hence, the need to establish more public elementary schools.

There is an overriding need for the establishment of a public elementary school in
Barangay San Manuel in the City of San Jose Del Monte. The Barangay serves as the receiving
relocation site for a spillover population of Metropolitan Manila numbering to over 3,000
families. This number further increased its population to over 42,000 from 28,320 in 2013.

The creation of such a public elementary school, for one, is an embodiment of the
mandated provision of basic services contemplated under Republic Act 7279 or the “Urban
Development and Housing Act’. This law provides that resettlement areas shall be provided
basic services and facilities for education. So that, while the spirit of this law is complied with via
the creation of such a public elementary school, it will also ease the condition of pupils living in
this Barangay who, in pursuit of elementary education, still need to enroll in, travel to, and
attend classes at government-run elementary schools in other Barangays of the City and other
adjoining towns.

This bill, thus, proposes the establishment of a public elementary school in Barangay
San Manuel, City of San Jose De! Monte, Bulacan, to be known as the “San Manuel Elementary
School’. It is made in response to the clamor of its existing and newly-established residents to
uplift their social well-being and grant them convenient access to free and quality basic
education guaranteed them by the Constitution.

The approval of this bill is, thus, earnestly fought.


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Sixteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 4254

Introduced by Honorable Arturo B. Robes

“AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN
BARANGAY SAN MANUEL, CITY OF SAN JOSE DEL MONTE,
PROVINCE OF BULACAN, TO BE KNOWN AS THE SAN MANUEL ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.”

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

SECTION 1. Establishment of a Public Elementary School. There shall be
established, under the supervision of the Department of Education, a public elementary school
in Barangay San Manuel, City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan, to be known as the San
Manuel Elementary School.

SECTION 2. Appropriations. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in
the Department's programs the operationalization of the San Manuel Elementary School, the
funding of which shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 3. Implementation. The Secretary of Education shall issue such rules and
regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.

SECTION 4. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect fifteen days after its publication in the
Official Gazette.