Budget should be used to stop fee hikes-youth solon
KABATAAN Representative Raymond “Mong” Palatino slammed the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for failing to regulate tuition as the House tackled the agency’s proposed 2010 budget in session today, citing that higher education institutions impose higher tuition rates year after year.
Data from CHED show that the average [...]

‘Proposed P170B DepEd budget is Arroyo’s legacy of abandonment’
Kabataan Party-list Representative Raymond “Mong” Palatino today said that the proposed P170.85 billion budget forn the Department of Education allots a poorly P6 for every student.
DepEd’s operating budget actually decreased by 1 percent, Maintenance and Operating Expenses  by 2% and Capital Outlay by 29%. “DepEd itself admitted [...]

As the national government continues to cut down spending on the country’s 110 state universities and colleges (SUCs), students carry the burden of the steep cost of higher education, Kabataan Party-list Representative Raymond “Mong” Palatino said.
In the proposed national budget for 2010, allocation for SUCs will be slashed by 13 percent or a whopping P3.2 [...]