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Thursday, May 27, 2004
Public arts school to get P5.5M aid
By Aledel Gonzales-Cuizon
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
THE Mandaue City Council recently approved the release of some P5.5 million for the expansion of the only elementary public school for the arts in the country.
The local school board had passed a resolution requesting Mayor Thadeo Ouano to allocate the budget from the Special Education Fund for the operations of the Mandaue City Elementary School for the Arts.
The board is also rallying for support for the expansion of the school to secondary.
“The department shares the dream of our leaders to preserve the culture of Mandaue City and responds to the challenge of the Department of Education to develop human personality and shall commit to nurture gifted children with special talents in both the academics and the arts,” the board resolution stated.
The school is located on a hilly area some four kilometers from the main highway in Barangay Casili.
But the lack of teachers, school buildings, communication facilities, school equipment, transportation and even sound and lighting equipment has been hounding the school since it opened in 1998.
The school needs a bus to transport its students to and from Casili.
It also lacks classrooms and office equipment.
The Mandaue City Elementary School for the Arts was established to promote arts as avenues for aesthetic development and cultural enhancement.
Former Mandaue City ma-yor Alfredo Ouano provided the 2000-square-meter lot in Casili the school occupies.
The buildings were built with the help of a civic group and Rep. Nerissa Soon-Ruiz (Cebu, sixth district).
(May 27, 2004 issue)
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