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For fiscal year 2025, government subsidy programs for private schools will prioritize the poorest learners in the selection of beneficiaries, Senator Win Gatchalian assured.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 2025 national budget carried Gatchalian’s proposed amendments to the special provision on Government Assistance and Subsidies under the Department of Education (DepEd) budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Under the special provision, learners from low-income households will be prioritized in the Senior High School Voucher Program (SHS-VP) and the Educational Service Contracting (ESC) Program.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It also specifies that learners from congested public schools will be given priority in the ESC.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Under the ESC program, the government shoulders the tuition and other fees of excess students in overcrowded junior public high schools who enter private schools contracted by the DepEd.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Under the SHS-VP, qualified SHS learners from participating private and non-DepEd schools receive subsidies in the form of vouchers.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For fiscal year 2025, P12.077 billion will be allotted for the ESC while P27.024 billion will be allocated for the SHS-VP.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last year, Gatchalian flagged that 68% of ESC recipients for School Year (SY) 2020-2021 were from non-poor households or those with incomes above or equal to the per capita threshold.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fifty-nine percent of ESC recipients from SY 2019-2020 were from non-poor households.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Based on higher-end estimates by the office of the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, the leakage from the ESC program amounts to P8.6 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The findings were derived from an analysis conducted by the senator’s office using data from the 2020 and 2022 Annual Poverty Indicators Surveys (APIS).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Using the same data from the 2020 and 2022 APIS, Gatchalian’s office also found that 70% of SHS-VP beneficiaries for SY 2020-2021 were from non-poor households.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n During that school year, P7.21 billion or 53% of the P13.69 billion allocated for the SHS-VP was directed to these non-poor learners.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For SY 2019-2020, 64% of SHS-VP beneficiaries were from non-poor households. During that year, P7.30 billion or 39% of the P18.76 billion allocated for the SHS-VP went to non-poor learners.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For fiscal year 2025, government subsidy programs for private schools will prioritize the poorest learners in the selection of beneficiaries, Senator Win Gatchalian assured. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11023,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions\/11023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}