Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS ‘.
First Regular Session

2085
HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by: HON. CLAUDE P. BAUTISTA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill seeks for the establishment of Tabayon National High
School from the former Jose Abad Santos National High School-Tabayon
Extension. While the latter continues its service through quality
education, it is located 18 kilometers away from Jose Abad Santos
National High-Main Campus in Caburan Big, Jose Abad Santos in the
Province of Davao Occidental. Jose Abad Santos National High
SchoolTabayon Extension is also 10.5 kilometers away from Kalbay
National High School. Actually, this is the only nearest secondary school
in the municipality.

Tabayon National High School if it is so approved will have the
graduates of the elementary schools from the interior barangays namely
Tabayon, Cayaponga, Carahayan and Malalan. The elementary schools
that service these students came from San Felipe Elementary School in
Tabayon that had 92 pupils, Cayaponga Elementary School with 80
pupils, Faustino K. Labiton Sr. Elementary School in Carahayan with 75
pupils, and Malalan Elementary School with 50 pupils. These schools
graduated a total of 297 pupils.

In pursuing secondary education, the students have to traverse
three to ten kilometers of winding mountain roads and cross flooding
rivers during the rainy season. Desiring to have their children attend a
secondary school, the Tabayon Local Government bought a parcel of land
that measures ten thousand square meters.

Another reason for the establishment of the Tabayon National High
School is that the nearest private school participating in the Government
Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE) is
19.5 kilometers away from students living in the interior barangays of the
municipality. Transportation expenses are high for students whose
parents are mostly subsistence farmers and small fisherfolks. Because of
this, the students would opt to stop and help in the farms and in other
forms of livelihood that their parents engage in. It should be noted that
most of the students belong to families who are recipient of the Pantawid
ng Pamilyang Pilipino Program, otherwise known as the 4Ps.

The feasibility of establishing the Tabayon National High School is
viable because the Jose Abad Santos National High School-Caburan Main
Campus is willing to transfer the Item of the Teachers to the would-be
established school as shown in the Memorandum of Agreement executed
between the two schools.


The move to establish the Tabayon National High School is
concurred during the PTA meeting on June 17, 2018 and other
stakeholders of the Barangay and Municipal Officials who fully support
this endeavor. Majority of the locals, including those who are residing in
the hinterlands believe that the establishment of the school is their only
hope for their children to complete secondary education, and earn a
degree in the future.

For the abovementioned reasons, the establishment of Tabayon
National High School is strongly endorsed.

cl E P. BAUTISTA


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

2085

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by: HON. CLAUDE P. BAUTISTA

AN ACT SEPARATING THE JOSE ABAD SANTOS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL -
TABAYON EXTENSION IN BARANGAY TABAYON, MUNICIPALITY OF JOSE ABAD
SANTOS, PROVINCE OF DAVAO OCCIDENTAL FROM THE JOSE ABAD SANTOS
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, CONVERTING IT INTO AN INDEPENDENT NATIONAL
HIGH SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS TABAYON NATIONAL HIGH 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 Jose Abad Santos National High School-—
Tabayon Extension in Barangay Tabayon, Municipality of Jose Abad Santos, Province
of Davao Occidental is hereby separated from the Jose Abad Santos National High
School, converting it into an independent national high school to be known as the
‘Tabayon National High School.

SECTION 2. All personnel, assets, liabilities and records of the Jose Abad
Santos National High School — Tabayon Extension are hereby transferred to and
absorbed by the Tabayon National High School.

SECTION 3. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the
Department's program the operationalization of the Tabayon National High
School, the initial funding of which shall be charged against the current year's
appropriation of the Jose Abad Santos National High School — Tabayon Extension.
Thereafter, the amount necessary for the continued operation of the school shall be
included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 4. 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.

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,