Mayor turns over 3,200 tablets to Angeles scholars

TABLETS FOR SCHOLARS. Mayor Carmelo Lazatin Jr. with Jam Aguila, head of Mayor's Office Record's Section, on November 3, 2020, turns over 3,200 tablets to City College of Angeles president Richard Daenos. The tablets will be exclusively used for the online classes of city scholars. (Angeles City CIO)
TABLETS FOR SCHOLARS. Mayor Carmelo Lazatin Jr. with Jam Aguila, head of Mayor's Office Record's Section, on November 3, 2020, turns over 3,200 tablets to City College of Angeles president Richard Daenos. The tablets will be exclusively used for the online classes of city scholars. (Angeles City CIO)

ANGELES City Mayor Carmelo Lazatin Jr. has turned over 3,200 tablets to City College of Angeles (CCA) to assist the scholars in their educational learning amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The tablets, which will be used exclusively for their online classes and will be returned by the end of the Academic School Year 2020-2021, were personally received by CCA President Richard Daenos on November 3 at the City Library.

Assisting Lazatin during the distribution of tablets were Mayor's Office Record's Section head Jermaine Jam Aguila, Information and Communication Technology Division Officer-in-Charge Michael Lising, and Mayor's Office staff Anne Salonga.

As part of the educational system's transition to the new normal, Lazatin said a total of P15 million was allotted from the CCA's budget for the initiative.

"This program is a part of our commitment in making sure that education is inclusive and that no student will be left behind," he added.

Lazatin, meanwhile, clarified that the tablets will be considered government property and the students will just have to borrow them from CCA's library and return the borrowed device in good condition.

The City Government, he said, also learned the lack of internet access of some students, that is why he sought the support of the internet service providers operating in the city to give free high-quality internet access to the scholars.

A total of 772 satellite units amounting to P20 million are being installed around the city to provide free internet service to all Angeleños, especially to students where they will have their own internet access cards.

Moreover, the City Government has also purchased 55,000 tablets for Grades 4-12 students in 53 public schools throughout the city, and 2,997 tablets for public school teachers, amounting to P194 million under the Special Education Fund (SEF) surplus.

To date, a total of 21,945 tablets have been distributed already to 21 elementary and secondary public schools.

Aside from the tablets, the local government unit is also set to distribute internet access cards to students in the city.

IC Calaguas, Lazatin's chief adviser, said the students will have their respective Wi-Fi access exclusively for education.

"For students, the City Government will issue internet access cards, meaning they will have their own access strictly for learning. Para mas mabilis ang access nila," Calaguas said.

Angeles City's Information Communication and Technology Division (ICTD) head Michael Lising on November 3, 2020 supervised the actual installation of 13 internet access points in Barangay Sto. Domingo for the free internet of the students for their online classes, upon Lazatin's instruction.

Calaguas said she recently met with the representatives of We Are I.T. Philippines, the internet provider.

She said 772 internet access points and satellite dishes are now being installed throughout the city for the free Wi-Fi for all Angeleños.

She said the internet access with cards will be distributed together with the tablets purchased by Lazatin for public school students from Grades 4 to 12 and the 3,200 students of the City College of Angeles.

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