How do you intend to improve the literacy of our children in the public schools? Posted on 28/05 2:29 AM

Richard Gordon

We see a real link between poverty and the level of education and literacy of our people. Almost all of the problems our countrymen face are rooted in poverty.  We are poor, not because of a lack of money but because we lack choices and the ability to create choices for ourselves. Education and literacy are preeminently vital to helping our countrymen create choices for themselves.

To raise the quality of public education and literacy, we are pursuing the enactment of the Health and Education Acceleration Program or HEAP bill which we filed last year.  We must BE ABLE to fulfill the Constitution's mandate to invest a heap of money in education in order to make a LEAP from being a poor country, to a nation where all its citizens are enabled, ennobled, and free. 

Every year, our public education system faces critical shortages in everything from classrooms, chairs, and books to teachers, lab equipment, and computers.  Our public school students also face serious problems with health and nutrition, factors that hamper their mental development and sometimes from prevent them going to school all together.  Our teachers are historically underpaid and under-trained.

HEAP will generate over P70 Billion in additional funds that is needed to build the classrooms lacked by our public schools, provide for chairs, books, computers, and science labs; provide for teachers' training; and provide additional funds to raise the salaries of teachers and principals.

In addition to uplifting the level of public education, it will provide for a year round feeding program (not just noodles but real meals), it will provide for vaccinations, free dental care and free medicines.


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