(Eagle News)–Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is pushing for the institutionalization of the Alternative Learning System, noting that many people have yet to be reached by the Department of Education’s parallel learning program.
According to Gatchalian, the government needs to reach out to 24 million who did not graduate from high school, “but we’re only addressing 600,000 a year.”
“That’s barely one percent of the total required enrollment,” he said.
He added that based on the DepEd’s data, there are 2,025,167 enrolled learners between 2016 to 2018.
He said, however, that only 1,329,667 learners were able to complete the program.
“We want to institutionalize, strengthen, and correct the deficiencies of the program. If it is a life-changing program, why then are we not giving it focus which means that we’re not only wasting resources, but also the time of the learners,” Gatchalian said.
