By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino said there is an urgent need to control tuition and other fee increases and to promote the practice of democratic participation in the decision-making process.
National Artist for Literature Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera and literary critic Dr. Elmer Ordoñez, talked about their experiences with Sison in the ’60s and ’70s. Kabataan Rep. Raymond Palatino discussed how Sison’s life has taught and inspired the youth to take on the struggle for national democracy. By RONALYN V. OLEA / bulatlat.com
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The only partylist group representing the youth and students sector in Congress wants graduates-to-be and their parents to be spared from paying for college rings, graduation balls and yearbooks. Simplicity, it said, should be practiced this coming graduation season. “Schools should not add burden to our parents…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2010 Kabataan Partylist Raymond Palatino today called on President Benigno Aquino III to make good his word that he will allot six percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) to education. ?”This coming State of the Nation Address (SONA), we expect Aquino to fulfill his promise that he will…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The proposed tuition fee hike would mean forced expulsion of thousands of students coming from poor families, especially from the working class.
Campus papers are closing down due to flaws in Campus Journalism Act of 1991.
NEWS RELEASE February 27, 2010 Kabataan Partylist Executive Vice President Carl Marc Ramota today enumerated schools that are not implementing the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) anti-‘no permit, no exam’ policy memorandum. Ramota said that the list is based on the compiled complaints of parents and students to Kabataan Partylist and NUSP’s (National Union of…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Kabataan says the youth have an important role in the coming elections as more than 40 percent of the voters are young Filipinos. “The youth can even dictate who they want to win in the May 2010 elections,” says Rep. Raymond Palatino.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Progressive lawmakers want to investigate how the DepEd is spending its large annual budget, given that the department has been hounded with an endless stream of corruption allegations.
Tuition in the Philippines has increased by as much as 90 percent. As a result, the dropout rate has worsened over the years as school-aged children are compelled to work and help their parents earn a livelihood. And there seems to be no stopping schools from turning students into milking cows.
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BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Three activists have joined the progressive party-list bloc in Congress as they took their oath this morning before Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio. By virtue of the recent Supreme Court decision on the party-list system, lawyer Neri Javier Colmenares of Bayan Muna, Joel Maglunsod of Anakpawis and Raymond Palatino of…