THE Bacolod City Council has approved a resolution favorably endorsing the renaming of Mandalagan National High School- Luis Hervias Extension to Mandalagan National High School and its separation from its main campus.
Councilor Renecito Novero, chairperson of the City Council committee on education and who authored the resolution, said that Aries Sobremisana, officer-in-charge principal and headteacher III, of the said school wrote a letter to the City Council requesting for the change of name of the school.
Novero said on March 21, 2022, a public hearing was conducted that was attended by the principals of Luis Hervias National High School-Main Campus and Mandalagan National High School-Luis Hervias Extension, as well as the teachers and the district supervisor of the Department of Education.
Novero said on March 29, the Local School Board of Bacolod approved a resolution endorsing to the City Council the request of Mandalagan National High School-Luis Hervias National High School Extension to be separated from the mother school, Luis Hervias National High School.