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MANILA, Philippines— Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero has requested his colleagues to move a invoice that prohibits the “no examination, no coverage” in all instructional establishments, calling it the “cruelest of fines.”
Escudero sponsored on the plenary on Wednesday Senate Invoice No. 1359 which prohibits instructional establishments from imposing any coverage that forestalls college students from taking exams or any type of instructional evaluation attributable to excellent monetary or property obligations corresponding to unpaid tuition and different faculty charges.
“By any ethical yardstick, forcing a scholar to forfeit an examination is the cruelest of fines. It triggers a sequence of occasions that’s typically life-altering for the scholar, for the more severe, not solely of denied diplomas but in addition of useless desires,” Escudero mentioned in his sponsorship speech.
The proposed legislation additionally prohibits instructional establishments from requiring college students to safe permits earlier than evaluation, compel scholar or dad and mom to pay a effective earlier than evaluation, and impose fines, penalties or pursuits greater than six % every year computed from the date of the examination till the date when such obligations are settled.
If handed, the legislation will apply to all instructional establishments each private and non-private below fundamental training, greater training and even technical vocation and quick programs.
Violators will probably be penalized P20,000 to P50,000 for each incident.
Underneath the measure, instructional establishments might withhold launch or issuance of grades, diplomas or certificates; refuse to situation relevant clearances; or deny enrolment to ensure that monetary obligations are settled.
The invoice is a mixture of payments utilized individually by senators Juan Miguel Zubiri, Cynthia Villar, Ramon Revilla, Jr., and Ronald de la Rosa.
Senate Invoice no. 1359 is at the moment pending its second studying. (MJ Soriano, INQUIRER.web trainee)
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