‘Generally ready despite transport strike’ – DepEd Aklan

BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL 

Schools in Aklan are ‘generally ready’ for the opening of classes despite the two-day transport strike on June 5 and 6. 

                        PHOTO AKLAN FORUM JOURNAL

Acting Aklan Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Ernesto Servillion, Jr. said there will be no suspension of classes in the elementary and high school levels as transport groups will protest the national government’s plan to phase out old jeepneys.

School officials, he stressed, are directed to closely coordinate with the Philippine National Police, Armed Forces of the Philippines and the local government units to ensure the safety and to help ferry students and teachers stranded in transport strike.

Servillion said they prepared the schools during the Brigada Eskwela with the support of stakeholders and barangay officials. 

This year, 384 classrooms for senior high schools will be constructed in line with the implementation of K-12 program. 

Only 259 classrooms were completed of the targeted 288 classrooms for senior high schools under the national budgets for the years 2014 and 2015. Elementary schools completed in Aklan numbered 124 out of 152 classrooms. 

Six classrooms were also completed and 67 classrooms for senior high schools are still under construction by partner agency Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for the year 2016. 

For 2017, DepEd Aklan has 267 teaching positions for senior high schools.

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