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A Hundred Thousand Signature Campaign for our RIGHT to QUALITY and FREE EDUCATION
We, students, councils and organizations, educators, faculty unions and associations, employees and school administrators, and parents nationwide are outraged over Benigno Aquino IIIs budget cuts on education and other social services. Our administration seems deaf over the constant calls for greater subsidy for education, health and social services in general, and has persisted in ballooning the budget for debt payment, military and dole-outs. The numbers speak for themselves. Last year, the operations budget of State Universities and Colleges have experienced a phenomenal cut that amounted to more than 1 billion pesos. For 2012, an accumulated amount of P569.8 million will be slashed in 50 SUCs. The maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) of 45 schools will be slashed by P250.9 million. The budget for Personal Services (PS) has also been decreased by P403.3 million despite the supposed automatic increase in PS for each year, due to the Salary Standardization Law. The zero allotment for Capital Outlay (CO) is carried on to this year. Meaning that despite the large number of youth that SUCs are unable to accommodate, the government will not support the construction of new buildings and facilities. While the budget for public tertiary education is continually undermined, the dire budget shortage experienced by the basic education sector and the Department of Education has again been overlooked in this years budget. The 238.8 billion pesos allocated for basic education is far from 6% GDP allocation recommended by the United Nations. Far from sufficient, the token increase of P30 billion has been allocated to the Department of Education is for Personal Services. Not as an exercise of political will, but an automatic increase mandated by law. The shortages in books, chairs, rooms and teachers will not even be dented by the current budget allocation. While the numbers say clearly that the government is not interested in spending for the youths future, the Aquino administration even proposed to add two years to basic education. We have seen that the haphazard addition of the Universal Kindergarten level without addressing the perennial shortages of basic education have resulted to 5 year old kids traumatized by the lack of facilities to accommodate their first touch with schooling. The Universal Kindergarten program needs P18 billion to hire teachers for the 2.3 million 5 year old kids but the government allocated only 1.9 billion for this. The Aquino government targets to build only 45,231 classrooms out of the 152,000 shortage. Only 13,000 new teachers will be hired despite the need for 103,000. The Aquino government also decided to slash the budget of hospitals and health services. The P44.4
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