Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNO,_ 8911

Introduced by HONORABLE LANI MERCADO-REVILLA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Constitution, Article II, Section 17 states

SECTION 17. The State shall give priority to education,
seience and technology, arts, culture, and sports to foster patriotism
and nationalism, accelerate social progress, and promote total human
liberation and development.

Further, Article 14, Section 1 mandates:

Sec. 1. 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.”

Moreover, the same Article, Section 2, paragraphs (1) and (2) provides:

ec. 2. The State shall:

tablish, maintain, and support a complete,

(ay

adequate, and integrated system of education relevant to the needs of

the people and society:
(2) Establish and maintain a system of free public
education in the elementary and high school levels. x x x”

It is the obligation of the State to provide a complete, adequate and integrated
quality education to the youth because of their vital role in nation-building, However, in
the article of Secretary General Romulo A. Virola of the National Statistical Coordination
Board entitled, Statistics on Philippine Education: Good News and Bad News, Dr. Virola
reported that the Philippines only spends 3.3% of its Gross Domestic Product on public
educational institutions for all levels of education, which is lower than 7.4% for
Malaysia, 4.0% for Thailand and all WEI countries and 5.2% average for OECD
countries.

In the City of Bacoor, the teacher-student ratio is now 1:70 — far from the goal of
the Department of Education to limit the ratio to 1:50. Bacoor has a population of
520.216 (NSCB, 2010). In the Zapote area, which has a total population of 32,809
(NSCB, 2010), there is only one elementary school catering to five Barangays; viz.:
Zapote 1, Zapote 2, Zapote 3, Zapote and Zapote 5. With the establishment of the Zapote
Integrated School, the needs of elementary and high school students in the Zapote area as
wil as the nearby areas of Barangays Aniban 1, Aniban 2, Aniban 3, Aniban 4, and
Aniban 5, and Barangays Talaba 1, Talaba 2, Talaba 3, Talaba 4, Talaba 5. Talaba 6, and
Talaba 7


‘As of the SY 2013-2014, the elementary student population in the Zapote
Elementary School is 1,931. Hence, the need to establish an integrated school in the
Zapote area to meet the elementary needs of students in the area and to decongest the
increasing population of students in the Bacoor National High School in the Tabing
Dagat area.

ANI MERCADO-REVILLA
istrict, Cavite



Republic of the Philip
HOUSE OF REPRESENT.
Quezon City

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. 39 il

Introduced by HONORABLE LANI MERCADO-REVILLA

AN ACT ESTABLISHING AN INTEGRATED SCHOOL IN BARANGAY
ZAPOTE I, CITY OF BACOOR, PROVINCE OF CAVITE TO BE KNOWN AS
ZAPOTE INTEGRATED SCHOOL AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREOF

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

Section 1. Establishment of Zapote Integrated School. There is hereby established under
the supervision of the Department of Education, an integrated school in Barangay Zapote
I, City of Bacoor, Province of Cavite, to be known as Zapote Integrated School,

See, 2, Appropriations. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the
Department's program the operationalization of the Zapote Integrated School, the
funding of which shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act

Sec. 3. Implementation, The Secretary of Education shall issue rules and regulations that
may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.

Sec. 4. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after publication in the
Official Gazette or two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,