GMRC bill ratified
Senator Win Gatchalian says Good Manners and Right Conduct (GMRC) will soon be taught again as a regular subject in schools as both houses of Congress approved the measure that will institutionalize GMRC and Values Education in the K-12 curriculum. On the part of the Senate, Gatchalian headed the bicameral conference which reconciled differences […]
Full electrification of all public primary and secondary schools nationwide needed
Senator Win Gatchalian has filed Senate Resolution No. 330 to conduct an inquiry on the electrification of public primary and secondary schools across the country. A September 2019 data from the Department of Education (DepEd) showed that there were 1,664 public primary and secondary schools nationwide that remain unenergized, affecting a total of 380,529 […]
Curb teenage pregnancy to build on PH gains in women empowerment
As the celebration of the National Women’s Month kicks off, Senator Win Gatchalian underscores the need to curb teenage pregnancy for the Philippines to sustain and accelerate gender equality on its milestones. Gatchalian zeroes in on teenage pregnancy as it is considered a leading factor on why girls drop out of school. According to […]
On profiling of Muslim students: No place for discrimination in our education system
Discrimination of learners on the basis of their background or religion has no place in the country’s education system. This is Senator Win Gatchalian’s reminder to the Philippine National Police (PNP) amidst uproar on a Manila Police District (MPD) memorandum, which called for the creation of a database of Muslim students in high schools, colleges, […]
DepEd should work with LGUs to enhance reading intervention programs
After the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory 2019’s (Phil-IRI) pre-test results revealed a big number of struggling readers in Bicol, Senator Win Gatchalian urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to closely work with local government units (LGUs) to enhance intervention programs for struggling readers and non-readers. Phil-IRI is a classroom-based assessment tool that determines whether students’ reading […]
Diagnosis for children with disabilities should be covered by Universal Health Care
Senator Win Gatchalian is seeking the inclusion of medical diagnosis for children with disabilities in the roll-out of the Universal Health Care Law. Gatchalian strongly pushes for an Inclusive Education as stipulated in his Senate Bill 171 seeking to establish Inclusive Education Learning Resource Centers in all public schools nationwide. Inclusive Education means all […]
Dedicated, adequate funding for SPED program needed
Though the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Special Education (SPED) program received a budget allocation for the first time under its current administration, Senator Win Gatchalian underscores the need for adequate and dedicated funding to address current gaps in the program including the shortage of teachers. Citing estimates from the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), […]
Prevention education needed to help curb online sexual abuse
At the conclusion of the National Awareness Week for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, Senator Win Gatchalian underscored the need for a comprehensive “Human Trafficking Preventive Education Program” to help protect Filipino children and youth from online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC). Gatchalian, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts and […]
Improved implementation of free tuition law needed
Senator Win Gatchalian urged the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) and the Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (UniFAST) to have clear and definite guidelines for an improved implementation of the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (Republic Act 10931) or the free tuition law. Gatchalian, co-author and co-sponsor of the […]
