Alburquerque Mayor Takes Education to Greater Heights

Mayor Efren D Tungol takes a step higher when he issued Executive Order No. 2013 01 Series of 2013 enjoining all component barangays of Alburquerque to create their respective barangay school boards towards reforms in basic education. The said EO  is in response to the results of the Alburquerque Education Summit held in December where it was found out that the state of education is in a dilemma, as evidence by poor academic performance for the past years, especially in the NAT tests, etc.

Mayor Tungol believes that collaborative efforts of ALL stakeholders in education are necessary to attain the goal of improving the academic performance of schoolchildren. As the saying goes, “It  takes a village to raise a child!”  When asked why barangay school boards are created when this is not provided in the Local Government Code of 1991, he says be believes that  “What the law does not prohibit, it allows!”

Alburquerque receives technical assistance from Synergeia Foundation in its Education Reforms Program and was recently recipient of  five laptops from SGV through Synergeia, and of books from Pusong Pinoy and Alburanons Worldwide.  It is also one of the LGUs considered for the Kaya Natin Movement, Ateneo School of Government and SEAOIL in its Champions of Education Leadership Governance Program.

The Basic Education Reforms Program encompasses teacher training, Parent Effectiveness Training, campaign for increase efficiency in RPT collection which means increase in SEF, reinventing the Local School Boards particularly in transparency,  accountability, etc following the Jesse Robredo models. 

The Executive Order has been approved by Governor Edgar Chatto and is the first in Bohol province.  On the same note, Alburquerque is the first LGU in Bohol to be the site of the Philippine Center for Civic Education and Democracy in its programs for civic education. (PR/edt)