Angara, chair of the Senate Committee on Youth, said the increase in the number of OSYs could lead to a greater negative impact on the country’s education sector later on if left unchecked.
Data from the Department of Education showed that close to four million students have failed to enroll for the current school year. As of Aug. 11, 2020, the agency noted that some 23 million have enrolled in both public and private schools, which is a significant reduction from the 27.7 million enrollees in 2019.
Angara said Congress should expedite the passage of the measure seeking the establishment of a Magna Carta of the OSYs to strengthen the mandate of instituting policies and programs for the development of OSYs in the country and to encourage OSYs to find other possible opportunities available to them.
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