Monday, August 06, 2007 Education program of Lapu ‘very poor’
LAPU-LAPU City plunged in its educational program because it has few pre-school centers, few teachers to handle extension classes, and few classrooms for evening classes.
The Local Governance Performance Management System (LGPMS), which is chaired by City Administrator Teodulo Ybanez, conducts the evaluation using the grading system of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). It rated Lapu-Lapu “very poor” in its educational program.
Ybanez told members of the City Council in its session last Wednesday that the State of Local Governance Report is mandated every three years as a guide for the new administration in its executive-legislative agenda.
Grading is based on the analyzed data capture form distributed and filled up by all department heads.
Extension classes
The city plunged on the percentage of barangays with functioning preschools, ratio of teachers against the number of pupils in extension classes and ratio of classrooms to the number of enrollees.
Amid the poor rating, the City suggested to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) that if ever it intends to construct school buildings in Lapu-Lapu, it should be at least two-stories high to maximize the use of city-owned lots and to avoid the burden and costly process of acquiring private properties.
Vice Mayor Mario Amores said the idea came from City School Superintendent Leonilo Oliva himself because he noticed that a one-storey school building is no longer tenable with the increasing number of enrollees in public schools every year.
He said the City should also focus its priority and funds on other developments rather on acquiring lots for school buildings.
The city engineer is required to monitor priority projects of DPWH in the city. (AIV)
