ILOILO – Five municipalities – Alimodian, Mina, Cabatuan, Concepcion, and Lambunao – were awarded “seals of good education governance” from Synergia, a foundation espousing reforms in education.
Their mayors each received the seals and accompanying incentives (P1.5-million educational package and P100,000 worth of gasoline for the mobility of their respective local school boards and educational trainings) on June 27.
According to Mayor Raul Banias of Concepcion, chairman of the regional education council of Synergia, 27 municipalities across the Philippines qualified for the seals and Iloilo was blessed with five.
“There are criteria for this specifically measuring the education indicators and functionality of our school governance council and local school board,” said Banias, such as high cohort survival rate and high participation rate.
Mayor Ronilo Caspe welcomed the recognition Cabatuan received.
He said the educational package would be useful most especially to the out-of-school youths in his town.
The local government of Cabatuan operates a teen center at the Cabatuan Comprehensive National High School were out-of-school youths are welcome to use reading and other learning materials.
Lambunao mayor and now 3rd District Provincial Board member Jason Gonzales expressed gratitude for his town being one of the awardees.
Gonzales said that on top of the criteria set for the award, Lambunao implements education programs that benefit public schools.
“We have remedial reading program that helps frustrated and non-readers,” Gonzales said./PN
