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CEBU CITY, Philippines — A Cebu Metropolis councilor is renewing his name to boost the town’s school scholarship grant, a 12 months after an analogous proposal was sidelined by the Metropolis Council amid considerations over funding.
Councilor Alvin Arcilla, a long-time advocate for academic help, filed a proposed modification to Ordinance No. 2333—generally known as the Cebu Metropolis School Scholarship Program—to extend the scholarship grant from P10,000 to P15,000 per semester and develop the scope of economic support to incorporate board examination and evaluate prices.
“Rising prices of schooling attributable to inflation have rendered the present P10,000 grant per semester inadequate for our students,” Arcilla said in his proposed ordinance.
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Underneath his proposal, students will obtain a number of types of monetary help to assist with their schooling. They are going to be granted P15,000 per semester to cowl tuition and different associated charges.
Moreover, they may obtain P1,250 yearly, or P625 per semester, to help with the price of college provides. For college kids coming from upland barangays, there will probably be a month-to-month transportation allowance of P1,250 to assist with journey bills.
After commencement, students may even be eligible for a one-time grant of P20,000 to assist cowl the prices related to board evaluate and examination charges.
The extra monetary help for licensure examination evaluate, Arcilla stated, acknowledges the complete academic journey of students—“from enrollment to employability.”
The proposed ordinance was formally referred to the Metropolis Council’s Committee on Legal guidelines throughout its common session this week.
The same proposal was floated final 12 months by Councilor Jose Lorenzo Abellanosa, but it surely failed to achieve traction after the scholarship committee flagged the town’s restricted monetary sources and questioned whether or not board evaluate help ought to fall beneath the scholarship program’s mandate.
On the time, Abellanosa criticized the administration’s spending priorities.
“If the Metropolis can spend on gala dinners or no matter, then we are able to most positively afford further help for our college students,” Abellanosa stated in the course of the August 7, 2024, session.
The committee, composed of Performing Vice Mayor Donaldo Hontiveros and Councilors Phillip Zafra, Jocelyn Pesquera, and SK Federation president Rhea Mae Jakosalem, stated that evaluate and licensure actions had been “not integral” to a school curriculum and feared this system may develop into unsustainable.
In addition they warned that providing an excessive amount of support with out accountability may end in “dependency, mediocrity, and misallocation of sources.”
Regardless of that, then-Councilors Pleasure Augustus Younger and Noel Wenceslao each supported rising the scholarship grant, with Younger calling the present P10,000 quantity outdated.
“These college students have studied for years. However ultimately, many can’t even afford the board examination. That funding can be wasted,” Younger stated in combined Cebuano and English.
Wenceslao described the proposed modifications as “superb,” however urged fiscal diligence, suggesting the necessity to realign budgets or create a separate ordinance to fund the expanded support.
Ordinance No. 2333 was enacted in 2012 to institutionalize the town’s school scholarship program for graduates of public excessive faculties. Its quantity has not been up to date since, at the same time as this system now helps over 17,000 students.
The proposed measure will probably be topic to committee hearings earlier than it may be calendared for plenary deliberation and approval.
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