Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

5326

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by HON. LORNA P. BAUTISTA-BANDIGAN

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 School-
Tabayon 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.

REP-LORNA P. BAUTISTA-BANDIGAN


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 5326

Introduced by: HON. LORNA P. BAUTISTA-BANDIGAN

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:

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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

SEC. 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.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official
Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,