As parents and students begin to anticipate the nearing graduation ceremonies, Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raymond ‘Mong’ Palatino today filed House Resolution no. 995 urging the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to strictly implement the policy of simple graduation rites and the non-collection of exorbitant graduation fees.
Palatino said that “schools should not add burden to our parents and students by requiring them to pay for frivolous items and expenses. They have already gone through a lot of financial difficulty because of the expensive cost of …

Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today filed House Resolution No. 272 condemning the violent dispersal of protesting high school students last August 20 at the Department of Education, Pasig City.
The resolution called on the lawmakers to “initiate legislative measures in order to ensure that the right of our students to air their legitimate grievances is secured.”
Around 50 high school students stormed DepEd to address their complaints regarding the collection of unjust fees in their schools and the proposed additional two years in secondary education. Yet a few minutes after the …

Kabataan Party-list Rep. Mong Palatino today sought to re-open the investigation over unresolved corruption issues involving the Department of Education as some 200 high school students trooped to DepEd-National Capital Region to complain about erroneous textbooks being used in public high schools.
The high school students brought samples of erroneous textbooks that are still being used by public high schools despite previous orders from the DepEd to have them pulled out.
“If these are the same textbooks that were supplied by the anomalous textbooks deal that has already been scrapped by Malacanang …