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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Mayor Evelio Leonadia asked the Department of Education (DepEd) to open a high school in a relocation site.
Opening a secondary school in Progreso Village will spare the residents from the inconvenience of sending their children to a public high school 6 kilometers away, the mayor said.
“Relocation must come with the provision of basic necessities and facilities, like school buildings for education,” said Leonardia.
Previously known as the Vista Alegre-Granada relocation site, Progreso Village spans an 88-hectare property in Barangay Vista Alegre.
It already has the Vista Alegre-Granada Relocation Elementary School (VAGRES), which was built six months after the relocation site opened more than 10 years ago, according to the city government.
“A [public high] school built by the DepEd would be a major impetus in the development of this community and her people,” Leonardia wrote DepEd secretary Leonor Briones.
The secondary school most accessible to area is the Emiliano Lizares National High School in Barangay Granada, which is 6 kilometers away, Superintendent Cynthia Demavivas of the DepEd-Division of Bacolod City said in a Letter of Justification for the proposed high school.
Currently 258 high school students live in Progreso Village, and they spend almost P28 a day for their tricycle and jeepney fares in going to the high school in Barangay Granada, said Demavivas.
Moreover, 252 Grade 6 pupils in VAGRES are expected to graduate this month and move to Grade 7, or first year of junior high school, in June.
Over the past decade, the city government has been “building a new community” of “informal settlers…displaced by the rapid commercialization of our urban centers,” Leonardia told Briones.
Basic facilities must be in place “so the population can avail [themselves] of amenities others in more developed areas enjoy” and “soften” the impact of relocation on the residents, said the mayor.
Other relocation areas in the city are in Fortune Towne (6.2 hectares) and Handumanan (92 hectares). (With a report from the Bacolod City Public Information Office/PN)
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